{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-02", "file": "debates1925-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff31a32a0b6aae59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "nt in view of the slackness of trade which continues and the tremendous number of men without work? The Government will presently have to tackle the very awkward question of Russia. We can all laugh about this, but they will find it a very difficult matter and one they cannot ignore. They will not be able to turn their back on this poor man by the wayside, like the unjust man in the Parable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-02", "file": "debates1925-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff31a32a0b6aae59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION (GUARANTEE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "gets that there is still a puritanical streak in the working classes of this country which is not reflected in their masters. Directly the suggestion is made that healthy, picturesque, cheap amusement should be provided for the working classes, we are told that it cannot be done because it would be breaking the Sabbath, or that there is some law, that was passed many hundred years ago, to stop it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-02", "file": "debates1925-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff31a32a0b6aae59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "VALUATION (METROPOLIS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "at had been done. Even if the London County Council did say it was too late it seems to me that it is never too late to mend. May I give the instance of Hornsey. For reasons which I have already given I have kept out of my instances Poplar and West Ham, and I am now dealing with the attitude of a very Conservative authority. In Hornsey I do not think the council has a single Labour member upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-02", "file": "debates1925-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff31a32a0b6aae59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "VALUATION (METROPOLIS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "preceding_text": " company can pay 10 per cent., while the tramway company is run at a loss. I think the matter requires very careful investigation, and I hope it will have such investigation when the county council's Tramway Bill comes before this House, as to whether the North Metropolitan Power Company is not using our tramway system as a milch cow for their own benefit. These are very serious allegations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.152.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-03-02", "file": "debates1925-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff31a32a0b6aae59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "VALUATION (METROPOLIS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Has any private enterprise in this country done it?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "preceding_text": " the consumption per unit per person is very much higher than here. There are many questions of a technical character, on which development has proceeded, which have not yet been fully decided. For instance, a municipal undertaking would not put down a plant to-morrow experimenting with steam pressure up to 1,200 lbs. No municipal undertaking would to-day use a steam pressure of more than 300 lbs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-02", "file": "debates1925-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff31a32a0b6aae59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "VALUATION (METROPOLIS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"God help London\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "de in support of it. The last speaker referred to the necessity for waiting in this matter because it concerned the fringe of London, and he said London would probably extend over the area at present. in question before very long. I say reverently, \"God forbid.\" I took part in the inquiry which was held under Lord Ullswater when London attempted to enlarge its boundary at the expense of Middlesex.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-02", "file": "debates1925-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff31a32a0b6aae59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "VALUATION (METROPOLIS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "ous in contrast to that eastern realm so dear to the hearts of my hon. Friends opposite, where desolation and misery prevail. Really I do not suppose that hon. Members opposite themselves believe in some of the statements which have been made. From my experience, which extends to a number of municipalities in the Midlands and elsewhere, private enterprise has always had the best of the game—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-02", "file": "debates1925-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff31a32a0b6aae59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "VALUATION (METROPOLIS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Another red herring!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": " to-night, will not hesitate to give this Bill a Second Reading. Let me assure any doubter on this side of the House whose energies—and I appreciate them—are exerted on behalf of the disabled soldiers and sailors, that one of the chief directors of this company obtained honourable distinction by reason of the service that he gave throughout the late War to the soldiers and the sailors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.170.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-02", "file": "debates1925-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff31a32a0b6aae59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "VALUATION (METROPOLIS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: You would get a brief out of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "I do not suppose the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-02", "file": "debates1925-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ff31a32a0b6aae59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "VALUATION (METROPOLIS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "With the utmost pleasure. The charge on that bill to a cottager is 14s, as a fixed charge per quarter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-02a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.208.5", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMI3ERS: \"Oh, Oh:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member put a question to me and I made inquiries, and I stated in my answer that, as a result of the inquiries I have been able to make, I cannot find any confirmation of the statement that there are such discriminating rates on this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.208.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.219.7", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What profit?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I think the discretion which is left to the committee is a very practical one. They have to find two things—in the first place. whether the industry is efficiently undertaken in this country, and, secondly, whether it is able to manufacture goods at a profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.219.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.231.2", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Partly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman satisfied himself that as Northern Ireland is now under a separate jurisdiction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BRASS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BRASS", "preceding_text": "e is going to educate them? Personally I think there would be a good deal of backing in China for this money to 'be expended in a different way—a way which would be more beneficial to the Chinese than trying to educate some of the more educated Chinese people. If we could use this money to develop some of the railways, roads and canals in China we should do far better than educating Chinese.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES HUDSON", "preceding_text": " some Members there is a definite intention, if the opportunity presents itself, to spend this money not at all upon education, but upon such purposes as the laying down of railways, and so on. Had that statement not been made so emphatically, I should have had to spend some little time to try to show that that really is the intention of a considerable number of influential people in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I would like to invite him to explain why, when the Conservative party are entrenched in this House in overwhelming numbers and in an impregnable position, and we can do nothing but bring moral pressure to bear on them, he chooses this moment to make this valuable suggestion? Is it because it did not occur to him when he was overburdened with the duties of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCURR", "preceding_text": "ry and other schools, and it has always given me the greatest pleasure to point out to them the picture on our walls of the Five Members. We are all proud of the fact that the Parliament of that time had the courage to stand up to a King who wanted to override the decisions of the people. So far as that Parliament was concerned, it was, in the eyes of Charles I, practically a Communist Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "les, which is going to cost a large sum of money, and points out what tremendous poverty and suffering there are existing on Clydebank, drawing the moral that. if there is that amount of money to spare in this country, it might very well and more properly be spent upon Clydebank rather than on this Royal tour, every time he does that, and gets tremendous support from the country in doing it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "on Clydebank rather than on this Royal tour, every time he does that, and gets tremendous support from the country in doing it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—I understand he has already received nearly 1,000 congratulatory letters because of the stand he has taken on that subject—every time he does that, he is doing something which, presumably, hon. Members opposite would call subversive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "even in India, if the Government had relied upon the ordinary resources of the criminal law, there would have been quite sufficient to deal with the situation. Only yesterday the Noble Lord the Under-Secretary of State for India, in reply to a question about certain books, said that these books were not to be allowed to go into India, because, presumably, it was not safe to allow them to go there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "ve other hon. Members. But that is not the proposed kind of revolution contemplated by the writer of this article. I do not want to go into details, except to say that the whole school are to rise on the slightest sign of discipline being enforced. I am bound to say that I have great sympathy with that, although I cannot give my approval to the idea underlying it. To be serious for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "of this Resolution. It is not with the slightest desire to interfere with free speech, or to prevent any person expressing ideas as to how much better we will be in a few hundred years if we live in this country under a benign president, when everyone will be equal—that equality which is the aim and the dream of the Socialist since the world began. As if we ever could be equal in that sense!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " talked about the shooting of an Englishman in Calcutta in broad daylight, but if the shooting of the people at Amritsar did not shock the hon. Member, it is sheer humbug to assure this House that his flesh crept at a single murder in Calcutta. It is only those who stand for the settlement of human affairs without bloodshed who are justified in pleading for a settlement without resort to violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you do to meet them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "d in this Motion to-night is this: You have, as I have said, got millions of our people down in the gutter, and, having got them there, you want to make it illegal for them to squeal. I submit that the real propagandists of revolution—of a bloody revolution—are represented on the Government Benches of this House. Revolutions are not made by speeches; revolutions are made by conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not go there?\" and Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " the existence of unemployment, you are lamenting the fact that you cannot get an adequate outlet for the goods that the workers produce. The same condition of things exists in every industrial country of the world. We have more coal than we can dispose of, more ships than we require. The people in other countries are in the same position, I admit, with the exception of Russia at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "re in the same position, I admit, with the exception of Russia at the moment—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not go there?\" and Interruption .] You went there when you could make profits. I say the people of every industrial country in the world are baffled with the abundance of goods for which they cannot find a market. America cannot get rid of its goods. The same is true of France and Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " pray, and work to adjust our social system while there is time to do so constitutionally. 1 am not, however, going to shelter myself by saying that I think our social system will be reformed in time to enable us to escape without violence, but that violence will he at your door. I tell you that if I were enduring those conditions, or if I felt to-morrow that by exercising a little violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Earl Winterton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under the Kaiser!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Earl Winterton)", "preceding_text": "canism. I have by me an extract from a newspaper which I understand is largely supported by hon. Members opposite called \"Forward,\" published in Glasgow, which boldly advocates Republicanism. Is that putting a ban on free speech? Can hon. Gentlemen opposite point to any country in which such articles would be allowed, except this country, and under the continuity of policy which has been followed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Carson?\" and \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "refore, I say that when the hon. Member for Shoreditch claimed that there has been or was going to be an attack upon free speech in this country he is really over-anxious. There is no risk of that happening. What this and every other country has to consider is the action to be taken against those who would overthrow by violent means resulting in widespread bloodshed and misery, the existing order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\" Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "use a most extraordinary argument. One of my hon. Friends had referred to the murder of a policeman in Bengal. The right hon. Gentleman, pulsating with passion, obviously very much moved, and obviously believing with all his being in what he was saying, asked,\" What right has the hon. Gentleman to speak of the murder of a policeman when he himself did not protest against the murders at Amritsar? \"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wholesale slaughter\" and \"massacre!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ON. MEMBERS\" Hear, hear!\"] I am very interested to hear those cheers. Then I take it that the argument of the right hon. Gentleman, which apparently is approved by those who sit behind him, was that there is no difference or distinction to be drawn between murder—I suppose he will admit that the killing of the inspector was murder—and the use of force by the law which results in death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "8212;and the use of force by the law which results in death. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Wholesale slaughter\" and \"massacre!\"] If a bloodthirsty mob—I am not referring to Amritsar—attacks a building, in which men, women and children are, with the intention of killing them, and the troops or police, in the execution of their duty and under orders of their executive officers, fire on that mob—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "me the courtesy of allowing me to finish my argument—if these soldiers or police use force, if in the execution of their duty, and under the orders of their executive officers, in order to save the lives of men, women and children, they are compelled to use force against the rioters, and certain people are killed, then the argument of hon. Gentlemen opposite is that that is wholesale murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.393.4", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " it is its bounden duty to do. I may refer to a case recently before the country, the case of one Gibson, of Newcastle, a, member of the local Communist organisation and, I understand, a prominent Communist organiser in the district; he. I understand, is at present safely lodged in gaol on the charge, of which he was found guilty, of being in possession of dynamite for blowing up public buildings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.393.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-03", "file": "debates1925-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "cb8a6502ff49876a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ded by my hon. Friends, every Member of our party is desirous that everyone should have every right of free speech in the proper way. As regards hon. and right. hon. Gentlemen opposite, I must say—and this is my last word—that after the experience of the elections of 1923 and 1924, I wonder that they should be such enthusiastic advocates of free speech in view of their noisy followers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-03a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I was listening to the reply of the Minister of Labour on Question 40.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Are we. not going to get any answer? Is the hon. Gentleman not aware of the fact that in the West Ends of all the big industrial cities hundreds of houses arc lying empty while the working people in the East Ends are overcrowded, and will he use the great power which he has, or thinks he has, to utilise these houses and supply the urgent need of the moment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHURCH OF SCOTLAND [PROPERTY AND ENDOWMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "preceding_text": "g, that the Church of Scotland is out for spoliation. If hon. and right hon. Gentlemen were listening to the very clear statement of the Lord Advocate I do not see how that argument could have come from any of them, because, after all, the Treasury is not going to suffer in this. The Treasury will benefit in the same way by the redemption as the ordinary heritors will, we hope, benefit ultimately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.549.6", "colnum": "549", "heading": "IMPERIAL INSTITUTE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "nly draw dividends and profits. I repeat that the object of all trusts is to eliminate the middlemen, to eliminate competition, and to get, as far as possible, the whole of the business under their control. The operation of these trusts and monopolies has brought about such a condition of affairs that at the last Election every Tory candidate put up the poster, \"Vote for So-and-so and Cheap Food.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.549.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.549.6", "colnum": "549", "heading": "IMPERIAL INSTITUTE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A nightmare!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "a year as a kind of bribe to be. allowed to remain here. He paid no tax in Buenos Aires. This man has now come back to England. When he gave evidence I think he was a knight. I should not call him very much of a knight. He was a knight of the purse, or a knight of brass. I do not think I should call him a knight of chivalry, to run away from the country in the middle of the War to escape taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.549.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.549.6", "colnum": "549", "heading": "IMPERIAL INSTITUTE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has this to do with the question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "tion. [An HON. MEMBER: \"A nightmare!\"] Now he is back in England, and he is a Lord. It will be interesting if the right hon. Gentleman who is going to reply will inform the House what particular service this gentleman rendered to the country, and also whether he contributed anything to party funds in order to get his peerage. It will be a scandal if this thing is not gone into right to the bottom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.549.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "IMPERIAL INSTITUTE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member's argument would be perfectly, apposite on a general economic discussion, but by his Motion he is limited to food profiteering. Banks are not food merchants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.561.7", "colnum": "561", "heading": "IMPERIAL INSTITUTE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "tition. Any of us who are in business knows that that is the one thing we try to do. The fundamental of commercialism, free competition, has broken down. It is time this House considered how to apply the principles of co-operation as against corn. petition. The house had abundant opportunities during the War of applying the principle of co-operation. Every time they did it they got better service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.561.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "IMPERIAL INSTITUTE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "We did something the very first month we came into office and we did exactly what the. Prime Minister promised we should do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.585.5", "colnum": "585", "heading": "IMPERIAL INSTITUTE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " and the bulk of the taxes come out of business, and the only business that can pay the taxes is the business that makes a profit. You do not get any out of the business that makes a loss. Let me carry it one step further. If the hon. Member asks any of his constituents, those of them I mean who do not have a permanent preference for the dole, and I am sure the great majority of them do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.585.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "IMPERIAL INSTITUTE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "It is a place where people did not in the past make charges which there was no opportunity of answering. As long as Members of the party opposite spend the whole of their time going up and down the country vilifying every private firm by name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "IMPERIAL INSTITUTE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "that is to reserve its judgment until the Royal Commission has made its report. That is the moment to consider whether the Royal Commission has done its work well. I can only suppose that in making the criticism which the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley has thought it right to make to-night, and in particular the criticism against a man whose work in the Ministry of National Service is sneered at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.591.3", "colnum": "591", "heading": "IMPERIAL INSTITUTE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like the building unions!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "e a better scheme. You are in power with a majority. It is your duty to tell the housewives of this country, struggling under a load which they are physically unfit to bear, how you are going to deal with the profiteers, how you are going to deal with the people who, in a time of scarcity, jump prices. \"Supply and demand\" simply means that when you get the consumer at your mercy, you strangle him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-04", "file": "debates1925-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "3b85c476a8676c43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.597.9", "colnum": "597", "heading": "IMPERIAL INSTITUTE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "is type of education, is to put a stigma on our part of the country which we are not going to accept lightly. I am not going to detain the House at any length. The Minister is well informed of all the facts, and he has a very definite and short answer. My only hope, in raising the matter here, is that I shall raise such a furore in the agricultural districts of Pollokshaws and Pollokshields—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-04a.597.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-05", "file": "debates1925-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4ec7477d35eb19d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-05a.619.6", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "As Northern Ireland has been granted a separate Parliament, and it is no longer part of the United Kingdom in that sense, has the right, hon. Gentleman satisfied himself that there is authority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-05a.619.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-05", "file": "debates1925-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4ec7477d35eb19d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-05a.624.4", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "preceding_text": "Last Monday the Under-Secretary asked me to put the question down for to-day. The bulk of the people in the list published last week were people who were either too old or too young and were exempt by the trade union rules in regard to the levy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-05a.624.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-05", "file": "debates1925-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4ec7477d35eb19d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-05a.707.3", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "The brief report of what he said to a gathering, I think, within the precincts of this House, last night, opens with the words: Security was the master-key to the difficult problems of Western Europe. I do not suppose it would be possible for anyone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-05a.707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-05", "file": "debates1925-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4ec7477d35eb19d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-05a.795.0", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Captain GEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GEE", "preceding_text": "ould trust them, and when you cannot follow your leader the most honest thing to do is to clear out. The English gentleman to whom I referred said of the statesman that he lifted his head to the middle distance. So far as I am concerned I prefer to say that it is a most unfortunate thing that this has been forced on the Government to-day, and that it is a waste of time, a despicable waste of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-05a.795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-05", "file": "debates1925-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4ec7477d35eb19d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-05a.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Protocol!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ps concealed from the Committee the extent of the information which I imparted and the candour with which I spoke, and when hon. Members read my speech they may feel that it really contained more than at the present moment they have entirely given me credit for. The right hon. Gentleman talked as if I had told the House nothing. He talked as if I had said nothing of any consequence on any subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-05a.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.807.5", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACGUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACGUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ising and believing as he did, and as we all-believe, that the working man must have some institution to protect him because, alone, he is a small ineffective unit, and he may have against him the great force of a large employer of labour or of a large company, which is a combination in itself. Therefore, the only thing that the workman can have to protect him is a strong and vigorous trade union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.807.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.817.5", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are doing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " and there will be Conservatives setting up trade unions. The whole thing is wrong. We lost a continent through taxation without 'representation, but this is taxation with misrepresentation. Conservatives are being taxed for the purpose of supporting their political opponents. The thing is utterly wrong. Suppose our party were to get power to deduct something from the wages of our opponents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.817.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Another trade unionist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "n. Members opposite remind me I do so as a trade unionist, and before I come to matters of controversy, I wish to state one or two propositions, which I do not think will meet with dissent from any large section of the House. The first proposition is that no man, whatever his position in life, should be subject to compulsion to support with his money a political faith in which he does not believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the rules?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "t that, when the ballot is taken, notice shall be sent to all members of the fact that the ballot has been taken, of the result of the ballot, and of the fact also that any member may contract out, but there is no provision, curiously enough, that a new member of a trade union shall have notice given to him that he ought to be under no liability, if he does not wish, to support the political fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"There is the Tory party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": " MEMBERS: \"No!\" Hon. Members opposite say \"No,\" but when they have heard me, they will agree with me. That is an automatic position. First of all, I start with that position, and say that there is no other trade, profession, or class of life in which a man, merely by joining the trade organisation of his trade or profession, becomes automatically liable to support a political party with his money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.827.2", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "I should not make in this House a statement in support of which I had no evidence. 1 decline to make names public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.827.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Member desires it, I will undertake to do so within a week from now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You said you have got the name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Member desires it, I will undertake to do so within a week from now. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Hon. Members opposite must give me sufficient time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.828.4", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no Lodge of the name of Mountain Ash!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": " am speaking in the presence of a great many members of the Miners' Federation of Great. Britain, and they know that the contribution for political purposes is 6d. per quarter, which most of us have been taught means 2s. a year. The difficulty is there are only two Lodges, Mountain Ash and Abertridwr, in South Wales, where 2s. is returned to men who claim exemption; in all others, ls. is returned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.828.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.828.4", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no district of that name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "tain, and they know that the contribution for political purposes is 6d. per quarter, which most of us have been taught means 2s. a year. The difficulty is there are only two Lodges, Mountain Ash and Abertridwr, in South Wales, where 2s. is returned to men who claim exemption; in all others, ls. is returned. [An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no Lodge of the name of Mountain Ash!\"] I said \"district\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.828.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "I thought the hon. Member for the moment wanted to speak. If he did I should have thought it, much simpler for him to rise and I would have given way to him. When I come to the expenditure of the fund, I find that there is an expenditure on the political side of £6,343. Further, I find that the return to the districts is £4,575.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.830.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.831.6", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, and we will explain that later.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "Well then, does he want us to believe that there are no members of the Miners' Federation of Nottinghamshire who had claimed exemption?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.831.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.831.8", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "There is the contribution of Nottingham and other counties to the political fund and the way ii which it arises is this. Instead of there being a separate demand the same amount of money is collected on each periodical payment from every member, whether he has contracted out or whether he has not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.831.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.831.8", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION (POLITICAL FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "1HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": " need go into the whole of the other matters into which I went last year. They are fresh in the recollection of a great many hon. Members, but there are just one or two other matters that I want to make perfectly clear before I sit down. First of all, it has been said by hon. Members opposite that this would do away practically with their funds, or seriously deplete them as to make them worthless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.831.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\" \"What are you talking about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": ", two of them winding up by saying, \"We dare not sign our names because we are in the business.\" What would be thought of me coming to this House of Commons and libelling one of you men? What would you say if I were to take advantage of my place here by so contemptible a means as to say, \"You, and you, and you are doing certain things\"? When you ask me for the proof I have merely got to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Major STANLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Major STANLEY", "preceding_text": "or instance, it is very easy for hon. Members opposite to depict the Conservative as a fat gentleman with top hat and spats, frock coat and white waistcoat, sitting caressingly on his money bags. It is equally easy to depict the Socialist as a wild-haired gentleman, with a blood-stained dagger in one hand and a torn copy of the marriage laws in the other. It is even easy to depict a Liberal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PATRICK HASTINGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PATRICK HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "rom two Members of my own profession. Every word of those speeches was cheered to the echo in a way which is unusual in this House. I have seldom seen so much enthusiasm from the benches opposite me for every word uttered by those two hon. Members, and it was quite apparent that every single Member of the House on that side was in favour of the Bill and was prepared whole-heartedly to vote for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "itable distinction that already exists. You know that the fight at the election is in its essentials quite unfair to our party. It is just like two men in the ring going to fight; one is a big fellow trained to use his fists and the other is a half-trained ill-fed person. It is not fair. It may be that our party has to fight with loaded dice, but hon. Members opposite do talk about this class war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "oing my duty if I did not express my opinion in regard to the matters dealt with in this Bill. When I first went- to Durham as a prospective Conservative candidate, I was literally amazed at the state of things which I found there. I was new to politics, and perhaps that was why I was more astonished, but it did seem strange to me that in a free country there should be so little political freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.876.5", "colnum": "876", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "the trade unions and an offer from them of some- thing which restores to their men their liberty. God forbid that we should want to take political credit or make political capital out of this thing! There is a great privilege waiting now for trade unionism to take advantage of it, for trade unionists to say to their fellow-men, \"We have been perhaps a little blind. We restore to you your liberty.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.876.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BIRD", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BIRD", "preceding_text": " about individual right within that organisation, which means the paralysis of t hat organisation.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th August. 1912; col. 3068, Vol. 41.] We, on these benches, stand for the rights of the individual, and it is because we hold those views that we are ardent supporters still of the, Macquisten Bill, but for the reasons that I have stated, we are not going to press the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "ouncement it contained makes it absolutely essential that our position on these benches should be made absolutely plain. If the course which the hon. Gentleman hinted at is followed, the Amendment moved by the Prime Minister will become the substantive Motion to be voted upon by the House. I should like to point out that that Amendment contains a reference of approval to the principle of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-06", "file": "debates1925-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "b7a28e6332fee83a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "eed on lines entirely contrary to the principle and view that I have just quoted as given expression to in this House by the late Mr. Bonar Law. I can only say this, that if we follow the line I think it was of the hon. Member for Skipton (Mr. Bird) and not only introduce a Bill similar to the one which we have before us now, hut, as he went further and said, a Bill that will go much beyond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-06a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "They happen to be coloured men in one case and white men in another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.900.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUSPENSION OF MR. KIRKWOOD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the House will allow me to say a word or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.965.9", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "h sympathy for an old couple who had scarcely the fulness of the provisions of life to keep them bodily warm. She said to John, the coachman, \"Remind me when we get home, I must send some blankets and food for those dear old people.\" But when the same old lady got in her drawing room in front of a splendid fire and had the most cherished dainties presented to her there was a change in her outlook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.965.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "ade. There is a proviso that During the period between the commencement of this Act and the first day of October, 1925, a person shall be entitled to receive benefit if the Minister thinks fit so to direct in his case notwithstanding that the first statutory condition may not have been fulfilled in his case.'' That means that after 1st October next there is no power at all to waive that condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.984.4", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "eased to call the dole. That. statement quite truthfully put the position. The Minister has had to acknowledge that in 1920 they took in the whole of the ex-service men, and they did it because, had they not done it—the payments were heavier then than now—they were not quite sure that the ex-service men might not have turned their guns in a direction which they did not want them to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.984.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.986.3", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " being thrown off, in my opinion, and in the opinion of my friends, solely because you are determined now to get rid of the national responsibility to these men, and to force them back upon the guardians. You are coming to the time when you are talking of the deserving and the underserving unemployed. That is a most pernicious definition of unemployment. I have had some experience of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.986.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "hout doing work is a great crime against the individual and against society. At present you are spending this money and just enabling these people to keep alive. Miles of the land of England are going out of cultivation, and at the same time abundance of young men have their lives ruined with no chance of earning for themselves. That is the position which this House ought long ago to have tackled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1002.2", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So we have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "When the late Government was in office we were told they had a remedy for unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1002.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "of even the party opposite. It is a mean circular in addition. Might I just say this before I conclude? I am in agreement with all that has been said in regard to providing work. Some steps ought to be taken. The right hon. Member for Preston says that nobody has got the last word. But during his term of office he issued a circular which was a cowardly circular as well. It dealt with the old folk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "e to say that because something was done wrong under the Labour Government it must remain that way for ever. Hon. Gentlemen opposite are at the Ministry of Labour now. They are the occupants of that place, and it is their job to put the wrongs of the previous Government right. Insurance money has been granted because the Department was afraid. If I can make it my job I will to make it more afraid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I demand that they should do it. I ask them to do more; I ask them even to increase the benefits. The benefits at present are too niggardly; I want them to do more, and I demand it for my people. The Minister of Labour is a comparatively well-off man, as riches go—I do not say he is rich—and this circular, issued by a well-to-do man, sounds to me like a rich man trying to rob the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "s they are doing under these Regulations. Here is a Regulation which states that a man, after he has been refused benefit, will not have his ease reconsidered for six months. We were told last year that the Act introduced by the Labour Government had abolished the gap. The gaps previously were only for a period of five or six weeks. The Tory Government has reintroduced the gap, but for six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "e employment under ordinary industrial conditions. Uncovenanted benefit should not be recommended in cases where the Committee arrive at the conclusion that the applicants by reason of age or physical infirmity are not likely to obtain employment again, or will only be able to get work intermittently. 9.0 P.M. The Exchanges, and the Minister of Labour says that no such instruction has been issued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " of Labour says that no such instruction has been issued. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the date?\"] July, 1924. And yet the Minister, only last week, said that no such instruction was issued! He has got something to put upon his permanent officials, who are the ones responsible for issuing those instructions. The Department is not being managed by the Minister of Labour but by the permanent Officials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ek, said that no such instruction was issued! He has got something to put upon his permanent officials, who are the ones responsible for issuing those instructions. The Department is not being managed by the Minister of Labour but by the permanent Officials. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] We know it is. Here is a case in point. An instruction was issued eight months ago, and the Minister gives this answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1072.5", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "istration and regulations I have made no change of any sort whatsoever. In the light of that, let me consider one or two of the criticisms that have been made. The hon. Member who moved the Amendment thought that a change had been made, and I think that suggestion was reiterated by the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley, and it has been freely stated in the Press which supports hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1072.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1072.5", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the same period\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ct was passed, of the administration of my right hon. Friend. During the period 9th December to 12th January of this year the number of applicants whose claims were rejected amounted to 12.8 per cent. of the total claimed. During the most applicable period of the right hon. Gentleman's administration, from 9th September to 13th October last year, the figure was 14.8. or rather a larger percentage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1072.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1076.3", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says he was referring to West Ham. I am sorry, but I only understood his remark to apply to his own constituency. It is not in the OFFICIAL REPORT as he now states it, nor in my remembrance of his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1076.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "rose .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1078.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-09", "file": "debates1925-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "e99e8c648fe03012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1078.4", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "same one and a quarter million all the time. There are between three million and four million who, at one time or another in the course of a year, come on to benefit, and are in and out, but there is a far greater amount of casual labour in and out, and, therefore, if a casual labourer, who is fit physically, cannot show six or eight weeks during the three years, that is a presumption against him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-09a.1078.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-10", "file": "debates1925-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8fa0670dbde243ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Including yourself!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "to exercise possibly the restraint which older Members exercise. But I observe that many older Members exercise rather less restraint than I do, and that sometimes we are unduly provoked by hon. Members. I wish to take this opportunity—and I am entitled to do so—to say that I think it would be for the great advantage of this House if hon. Members would interrupt to a less extent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-10", "file": "debates1925-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8fa0670dbde243ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"There was no attack!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for Reading opposite (Mr. H. Williams) and the hon. and gallant Member for Burton (Colonel Gretton). I could excuse the hon. Member for Reading, but I do not know whether the hon. and gallant Member for Burton observed the usual courtesy between Members which requires that when a Member is going to be attacked in a personal way that Member is informed of the intention. beforehand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-10", "file": "debates1925-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8fa0670dbde243ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " if he really believes that this House has been more disorderly during the last two years than at many previous periods before the Clyde was represented at all. I realise that this Debate could very easily take a very acrimonious turn. But there is no one associated with me who wants that to occur. We want our colleague back here in the House to render the very great services which he does render.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-10", "file": "debates1925-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8fa0670dbde243ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1168.0", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "ly doing something for the unemployed. being very anxious to justify expenditure by riving that as the cause. I remember, in the last House of Commons, that there was a Government in power which sought to justify expenditure on five cruisers by saying that it was not really because the five cruisers might necessarily be required then and there, but it was for the purpose of relieving unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-10", "file": "debates1925-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8fa0670dbde243ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And State company promotion!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ity, is against Socialism. I would rather have Socialism pure and simple, but if you will have it in this half-and-half, halting doddering and stumbling fashion, people like myself ought to be on the Committee to see you do it in the right way. None of us on these benches now need worry about finding arguments in favour of State action. State trading. State banking—in fact. State everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-10", "file": "debates1925-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8fa0670dbde243ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1228.4", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "12;the Board of Trade, the Board of Agriculture, and so on—and have suggested that their responsibilities and the responsibilities of the Government in deciding their policy should be handed over to a Committee which hon. Members opposite have, quite frankly, said should consist very largely of members of a party which is not responsible for the government of the country at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1228.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-10", "file": "debates1925-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8fa0670dbde243ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1244.4", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It could not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "rust that when this matter is being considered by the Home Secretary and his law officials, it will be made a. punishable offence for any organisation, whether it comes—I say this with all respect—from my political opponents, and, I hope, my personal friends on that side in the shape of trade unionists, or whether it comes from any body of industrial magnates on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1244.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-10", "file": "debates1925-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8fa0670dbde243ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1244.4", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "preceding_text": " the mistake of looking too far a head. In this ease, I hope the right hon. Gentle man will look far enough ahead, and see whether he, or any of his colleagues, or any of his successors on the Front Bench, may have an uneasy conscience and see how they will stand, when, perhaps, with most innocent intentions, they will spend, as many hon. Members of this House do, an innocent hour at a night club.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1244.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-10", "file": "debates1925-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8fa0670dbde243ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1244.4", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "ouse rises is the only time that Members can find for recreation, why should they not go to a night club? The days of Puritanical tyranny have gone. But then the point comes in whether someone may not come along and threaten, unless a certain sum of money is paid, to publish the name of such and such a Member of this House, and there are Members on each side of the House who do attend night clubs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1244.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-10", "file": "debates1925-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8fa0670dbde243ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All cases.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GEE", "preceding_text": "I do not want to interrupt the hon. Gentleman, but I think he is rather stressing the point too much, perhaps, that the particular effect of this Resolution is to enable all cases to be tried in camera . It is not that they shall he, but it is to enable them to be so heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-10", "file": "debates1925-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8fa0670dbde243ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "posing you pass legislation to enable all such cases to be heard in camera , what would follow? If the Judges decided that it was proper so to deal with such cases, all such cases would be dealt with in camera . There is no doubt about it. The point I desire to make in that connection is that a common case of blackmail is that of a woman who may have been seduced by the prodigal son of a rich man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-10", "file": "debates1925-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "8fa0670dbde243ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Under the present law blackmail is punishable by a sentence up to penal servitude for life. Apparently that is not a sufficient deterrent, and the right bon. Gentleman is considering the addition of corporal punishment—flogging. I hope that that policy will not be pursued by the Government. The whole trend of modern thought with regard to crime is against corporal punishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-10a.1267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1306.2", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he will give us the totals for the towns, in view of the statements which are being continually made as to the number of men who have been knocked off? Certain figures were publicly stated the other night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1366.1", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "heir merits. I think the probability is that they would do more harm than good. If it really be a fact that some houses have been converted from their original purpose to be turned into offices, or garages, or clubs, there can be only a very small number of them, and I would venture to prophesy that, in the greater number of cases, those houses would not be found to be working-class houses at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1372.7", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "That is another point which the hon. Member knows perfectly well was dealt with in the Act of 1923. We know that if the landlord will not carry out the repairs, the tenant can go to the local authority and get a certificate to that effect, and he does not have to pay the increase of rent", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1372.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1372.7", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Birmingham!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "That is another point which the hon. Member knows perfectly well was dealt with in the Act of 1923. We know that if the landlord will not carry out the repairs, the tenant can go to the local authority and get a certificate to that effect, and he does not have to pay the increase of rent [ interruption .] He does in my part of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1372.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1401.0", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP PILDITCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Obstruction!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP PILDITCH", "preceding_text": "arted with the first Bill, which was brought in my Mr. Ben Gardner, embodying all the points to which I have referred. Not only was a great deal of Parliamentary time devoted to that Bill in this House, but there was a great deal of time spent by 60 or 70 Members in the Committee Room upstairs on that Bill, when every proposal in the Bill was subjected to a very acute and very deserving criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1413.0", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": "d Bill as if it were a bed of roses, but I think that time will prove it to be a bed of thorns. The Bill, in my opinion, is a very real tax upon the patience of the poor. We have heard a great deal about bad tenants, and I know that there are bad tenants, as there are good landlords; but both are the exception, in our experience of the administration of the Rent Acts from 1915 to the present date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "on the matter, but I myself have not seen it. I know that the whole of his housing legislation and his scheme is actually based upon the 40 per cent. addition, and 'f anyone wants to see it, because the right hon. Gentleman may have forgotten all that has taken place, he has only to read the Circular to local authorities which was issued by him in 1924. If that was his view then ho has changed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "uarantee. Wars. of course, do riot originally arise from small causes and small and momentary follies of nations. They arise from conditions where there exists an amount of passion and prejudice, where wars are beginning to be expected. It is out of this sort of conditions that wars arise, and it was largely out of the expectation that we should fight Germany that the war with Germany arose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We were!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "k the House of Commons ready exercises more constant control over foreign policy than is usual in foreign Parliaments. In this country, I submit, there are ample safeguards for popular control over foreign affairs, as things are at the present moment. The right hon. Gentleman spoke as if we could be committed to some very far-reaching obligation without either Parliament or the country knowing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1446.0", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Address the Chair!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "ness. These things have got to be faced frankly. If we are wrong tell us how there is a better way of doing it, but for goodness sake do not get up in this House, as some of you do on every vital issue which is discussed, and quibble and carp at every suggestion which is put forward, and never have the shadow or gleam of a suggestion for doing anything yourselves. That is the disheartening factor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1446.0", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "ss sake do not get up in this House, as some of you do on every vital issue which is discussed, and quibble and carp at every suggestion which is put forward, and never have the shadow or gleam of a suggestion for doing anything yourselves. That is the disheartening factor. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Address the Chair!\"] The Chair probably would be more intelligent to address than some hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1446.0", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "ne on that side wants war any more than we—but talking of possible enemies, of people who might possibly want to make war with you, and looking with suspicion at them makes them suspicious of you. Piling up armaments against them makes them pile up armaments against us. Before the War many people in Germany thought quite genuinely that we meant to attack them directly we got the opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": " mass of the public, but the right hon. Gentleman on the Front Bench told us these things two years before they were popular and therefore was regarded as being unpatriotic. In the Army days we did riot get so much of that. At least that was not my experience. They read the speeches of the Gentlemen in this Chamber and then they said: \"To hell with the war and politics!\" and went on with the work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "I rather gathered that at this time of the evening some Members of the House were more in a mood to prefer amusement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1463.0", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir GEOFFREY BUTLER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member for Bridgeton would oblige!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GEOFFREY BUTLER", "preceding_text": "im the members of his own and other parties in a gesture and in a disciplined and practised chorus? I do not know, but when my eye passes to some of the higher benches above and below the Gangway, I have a suspicion that a charming but rebellious beauty may burst in and destroy what should be an English ballet by a few paces specially imported from Moscow or even a suspicion of the Highland fling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-11", "file": "debates1925-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "0f0239f0f7602305", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL).", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "en you will have to adjust your diplomacy accordingly. And you can adjust your diplomacy accordingly. You know now that the people would not fight at this moment. There have been more causes for war, if ever there was a cause for war, since 1918 than there ever were in the seven years before 1914 and yet you have not fought—and you have not fought because you know the people would not fight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-11a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-12", "file": "debates1925-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "357529927a903382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1497.6", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERSKINE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERSKINE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the streets of London have been described as the dirtiest of any city in the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1497.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-03-12", "file": "debates1925-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "357529927a903382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1498.3", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "I hope they will take a return ticket!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "I intend to do my best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-12", "file": "debates1925-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "357529927a903382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "tral Hull, but it seems to me that he would, in that event, be usurping the functions of somebody—I do not know whether it is the Committee of Imperial Defence or who it is. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will correct that remark. If we say that the defences of these islands are aerial, what possible use is there for the Admiralty keeping up out-of-date stations like Chatham and Sheerness?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-12", "file": "debates1925-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "357529927a903382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1622.3", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "ess community of Hong Kong. They got £2,000,000 for the parade ground, and a suitable ground very much cheaper elsewhere. That is only one instance of many where we could raise a lot of money. The hon. and gallant Member for Hertford (Rear-Admiral Sueter) raised the old tale of his unhappy differences with the Admiralty in the past. I wish he could forget these old unhappy things of long ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-12", "file": "debates1925-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "357529927a903382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "f absolute necessities in regard to national defence, with the result that I am left with very little money for prizes and competitions, either national or international. But I admit that, if we had the money, we certainly ought to do more in the way of encouraging British competitors, and I hope that, as the finances of the country become less stringent, we shall be able to do more in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-12", "file": "debates1925-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "357529927a903382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1687.3", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It fell in!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "course, that is a question that we constantly have in mind, but I do not know whether the hon. and gallant Member realises the kind of expenditure that would be involved if we made underground hangars at aerodromes. As far as I remember, the experiment was made at an air station, Manston, during the War, and it ran into millions of money—in fact, it was so costly that it was never completed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-12", "file": "debates1925-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "357529927a903382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1689.4", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "Like my hon. and gallant Friend, I am unable to share the hilarity of hon. Members opposite, because this is a serious question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1689.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-12", "file": "debates1925-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "357529927a903382", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1727.0", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC (RESTRICTED STREETS) REGULATIONS, 1925.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": " remove other omnibuses from the streets, and the effect might easily be to squeeze out the small private omnibus owner. The answer to that objection has been given by the hon. Member for Central Wandsworth (Sir H. Jackson), who made an admirable maiden speech, who said that there have been only three objections. I would point out to hon. Members opposite that this is a very childish answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-12a.1727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1731.14", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel LAMBERT WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel LAMBERT WARD", "preceding_text": ", but I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that it would cause too much disorganisation of the railway services. All the same, if it comes to a question of leaving Scotland outside the scope of this Bill and co-ordinating with France, I unhesitatingly say it will cause infinitely greater inconvenience not to co-ordinate with France than it will to leave Scotland outside the scope of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1731.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Motion. I appreciate that naturally there must be some opposition, because whatever project is brought forward in this House must receive some opposition from one quarter or another. I think, however that opposition is largely confined to this House because it seems to me there is very little opposition outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "preceding_text": "nt, and make it for six months in the year. If the House will allow me, I should like to read a letter which I have received this morning from a very successful farmer. It is very relevant, because it puts the point of view of a farmer who is very successful, who has seven different depots and farms, who farms 3,000 acres, and keeps 500 head of dairy cows. He says, In answer to your letter\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are very patriotic!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "preceding_text": " even from electrical undertakings, expressing approval of this Measure. We had the other day a statement from a representative of a Local Authority which has its own electricity undertaking, and they say that, although the Summer Time Bill means a loss to them of a considerable amount of money, they are still in favour of it, because of the enormous benefit that it is to the health of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "preceding_text": " going to help enormously in the question of food production, will be augmented by the adoption of this Bill and its being made permanent. I should also like just to refer to seaside resorts. I may, perhaps, be biased in that connection, but in seaside resorts all round the country, this will mean an enormous advantage to the proprietors of boats, bathing machines, deck chairs, and similar things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1797.0", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "preceding_text": "sured terms in approval of this Measure, and that in no sense does it have any serious effect on the lives and health of the children. Comments have been made about the hard-handed toiler rising at 5.30 or 6 a.m., but I suggest that it is quite a minority of the industrial workers who get up at that hour. The great mass of the workers commence at a very much later hour than that in all our cities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1799.0", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "May I ask a question of the promoters of the Bill? Is not Summer Time at present running under the Expiring Laws Continuance Act?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1801.0", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A barrel!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "our of it. When you get statements from an hon. Member who takes the trouble to get into contact with, his constituents in a particular trade, and you find that they are absolutely opposed to these sweeping statements made in this House about this or that body of the community being opposed to the Measure, you must take the humorous arguments of the hon. and learned Gentleman with a grain of salt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1805.4", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBINSON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBINSON", "preceding_text": "I want to say, further, that it is a libel on young mothers to say they want to get their children out of the way so that They can have a rest. I have a fair knowledge and experience of the women in the textile industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1805.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Member for Forfar (Sir H. Hope). I am bound to say that I think, in regard to the Scottish farmers, there is a very grave difficulty, and I am not quite sure that I can answer the arguments that were put before the House and before me at that deputation by my hon. Friend. But I am going to put this to him. I do not think it applies with the same force to farming in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "appen to have had the privilege of farming for the last four years in Norfolk, and there I must confess I have had no difficulty, either with my foremen or with my men. When summer time came round they worked it quite loyally. I was only amongst them at week-ends, but most of my men were friends of my own, and I talked to them on all sorts of subjects and they never made trouble about Summer Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "st four years in Norfolk, and there I must confess I have had no difficulty, either with my foremen or with my men. When summer time came round they worked it quite loyally. I was only amongst them at week-ends, but most of my men were friends of my own, and I talked to them on all sorts of subjects and they never made trouble about Summer Time. [ Interruption .] It was half arable and half grass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1812.0", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "no longer contest the principle. The Amendment does not contest the principle. The Amendment is a tremendous advance as far as the agriculturists arc concerned, and I want to give them credit for it. They are prepared to concede the application, I believe the permanent application, of this principle to four months in the year. In doing that, it seems to me that they are giving the whole case away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-13", "file": "debates1925-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4420e06964df1da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1812.0", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "lication, I believe the permanent application, of this principle to four months in the year. In doing that, it seems to me that they are giving the whole case away. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"] We will see. I think there are many agriculturists who would be prepared to say, \"If you concede the principle for four months in the year, it does not matter very much to us if you go a couple of months further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-13a.1812.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1848.3", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "Is there really much further need for consulting the interests concerned? We have been consulting the interests concerned for nine years, since 1915.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1848.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1890.1", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "s being the noblest of all professions, is still infinitely the cheapest profession which a boy can enter. Candidates for any of the liberal professions, such as the law, medicine, the Civil Service, etc., must he supported by their parents for five or oven seven years, whereas a young officer in the Army, after 18 months at Sandhurst or Woolwich, is earning his living and is able to keep himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1905.1", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "ed or enlisted for a certain duty to be used for another. I think there is far greater terror and fear on the part of the trade unions than there need be in thinking that a body of men who are artisans and mechanics, and not soldiers in the normal sense at all, would be used by the State, whatever Government is in power, ruthlessly and recklessly to break down a strike of their own fellow workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1912.2", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Labour Government were in office at the time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ed and it was not considered by those responsible as being a matter in any way connected with an industrial dispute. I think that accurately summarises the situation. I agree with my right hon. Friend that going into a goods yard in the way that these men went, under the peculiar circumstances of the moment, was not only disastrous, but was calculated in the nature of things to engender suspicion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1970.0", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "ariness that the young men of the present day have a deep loathing of and repugnance to war itself, if he means that they realise the futility and the horror of it, and that they are reluctant to sacrifice themselves in that business, then I am prepared to agree with him that war weariness is the reason why recruits are not coining forward as rapidly to-day as they were in the days before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1970.0", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "posite time after time; because it must never be forgotten that, though it is right hon. Gentlemen who sit on the Government Front Bench and plan these war moves, who put the pieces here and pieces there which lead to devastating outbursts and the tremendous sacrifice on the part of the people—although it is right hon. Gentlemen who do these things, they are not the people who pay the price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1970.0", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "ple—although it is right hon. Gentlemen who do these things, they are not the people who pay the price. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] The right hon. Gentlemen are not the people who pay the price. I am speaking of right hon. Gentlemen sitting on the Front Bench opposite. They sit at home and they direct operations and send the other people out to do the fighting business. I pass on to another point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1977.4", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At the top!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "he small boy; who, he thought, was very weak, and it is the same with nations. We may want to stop war, but if we get ourselves so weak as to attract the ambition of some bullying nation, they will come down and smite us, and we shall not be able to defend ourselves. Great empires before us have gone under in the same way. Take Rome. You know very well that the Roman people got idle and luxurious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1985.1", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Palestine!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "spending about £1,900,000 a year on cavalry. Will the right hon. Gentleman explain how cavalry are to be used in the modern conditions of warfare? I am sure he is as well aware as anybody in this House of the fact that, during the Great War, the cavalry were, to a very large extent, unused. It is quite true that amongst the Cavalry officers there sprang up some of our most brilliant generals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1993.2", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "I have in my hand a circular issued by the War Department. It is issued by F6 department of the War Office, and in Clause 3 it states that writers and clerks must sever all connection with trade unions immediately they are placed on the establishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1993.2", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Amen!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "ith regard to the engineers who are employed on the War Department vessels, who some years ago were promised establishment? The War Office is sheltering itself behind some committee which is sitting on this matter. It appears to have been sitting for a considerable time, and it is unfair to these men, who have been in the service of the War Office for no long, and who are now denied establish-men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.1993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2007.0", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A free vote!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I do not believe there is any difference in point of fact. What was said was that an opportunity would be given for discussion, and the sole question, therefore, is what is the best opportunity for discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2007.2", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "It is very kind of the hon. Gentleman to be so solicitous for our fate; I have indicated that there are several ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2007.2", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "It is very kind of the hon. Gentleman to be so solicitous for our fate; I have indicated that there are several ways— [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—I have indicated ways in which the promise can be fulfilled. At any rate, we cannot very well, in the middle of a Debate like this, start another Debate. I think we have carried the matter as far as we can to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2007.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2022.0", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a free vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "umber of members of the Committee would like to have a day for this discussion. When I was speaking before, I was not, as hon. Members know, authorised to give away the time of the Government, but I have had the opportunity of consulting the Prime Minister in the meantime, and he is perfectly willing that there shall be a day, or so much of a day as is required, for the purpose of this discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2025.0", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARVEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARVEY", "preceding_text": "As far as I understand the right hon. Gentleman has accepted what we say was the meaning of the pledge given by his Government. I do not understand, however, that he says that he is going to fulfil it in that sense. We are quite familiar with the position of the Government. Before I read the exact words", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2025.0", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARVEY", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARVEY", "preceding_text": "ued by arty reasonably-minded person: Do you favour a discussion with a view to reaching an unfettered decision? And the answer was: We certainly do favour a discussion\"— and it is downright dishonest to say that they do not include the words of the question— We certainly favour a discussion with a view to what you ask—the arriving at an unfettered decision. That is the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2027.0", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Free vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "I gather that during the discussion there has been a certain amount of interest shown in this subject, partly owing to the subject itself, and partly owing to some differences of opinion on this side of the House. It is very natural indeed that people should take great interest in it. But the question for the moment, I understand, is about an opportunity for free discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-16", "file": "debates1925-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "faf9f176b67ad0eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2027.0", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "hown in this subject, partly owing to the subject itself, and partly owing to some differences of opinion on this side of the House. It is very natural indeed that people should take great interest in it. But the question for the moment, I understand, is about an opportunity for free discussion. [HON. MEMBERS \"Free vote.\"] Oh! you have got a free discussion; it is about what is called a free vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-16a.2027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2076.1", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " him or of me or of anyone else and tell the officials that he is, or I am, under restraint, and nothing is done? Ought there not to be some Regulations governing such a ease, so that the station officials must be satisfied as to the bona fides of people who proceed to act in this way? Ts the right hon. Gentleman going to allow the matter to rest where it is with regard to these station officials?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2161.1", "colnum": "2161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOOD", "preceding_text": "usion that it is impossible to graft on to the Amendment the words which would be necessary to make it discharge the purpose which I believe him to entertain. The suggestion I make is that, if he withdraws his Amendment, I will do my best between now and the time when the Bill will reach another place, to see whether the point of substance which I understand is in view can be met in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2178.2", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No, no !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "rld price, then I think the Minister and the House must meet this argument. The factories are obviously being established on the cost of production of sugar to-day, and if that is the case, and there is any future increase in the price of sugar, our demand is a quite reasonable one. I think it is largely recognised in the trade to-day that the price of sugar is about as low as it can possibly get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2180.1", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I must confess to a certain feeling of disappointment that the hon. Member should have felt it necessary to put down this Amendment again, because although the hon. Member for Hillsborough (Mr. A. V. Alexander) was not present when we discussed this matter in Committee, I had at cue time the hope that my eloquence had been successful in convincing the hon. Member for South-East Ham (Mr. Barnes).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2184.9", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GRATTAN DOYLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What paper was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GRATTAN DOYLE", "preceding_text": "them at the week-end. At about the time, when I was first preparing a speech to support this Motion, some kind friend sent mo some copies of a weekly paper which is well known and widely read amongst hon. Members on the Labour Benches. There were three issues, and they contained some very striking articles on this very question by the right hoi. Gentleman the Member for Shettleston (Mr. Wheatley).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2184.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2184.9", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GRATTAN DOYLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GRATTAN DOYLE", "preceding_text": "nch becomes harder, deeper and fiercer, hunger and want enter into that home, and in this state of desperation that man, a British workman and a trade unionist, goes to his employer and offers his work, because he is starving, at a shilling a week less than the trade union rate of wages. What happens The employer has to say, \"No, I cannot agree,\" and If he did not, there would be a strike at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2184.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2184.9", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GRATTAN DOYLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you mean shipbuilding?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GRATTAN DOYLE", "preceding_text": "tours a day longer, making precisely the same goods that A is making and B would make if he got the chance. The trade unionists and the trade union leaders and members of the Labour Socialist party say, \"While we will not allow B to earn his living and he may starve, we welcome with open arms the work of C, a German workman, because we must uphold the sacred doctrines and principles of Cob-denism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2184.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2190.1", "colnum": "2190", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. DOYLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you in favour of Prohibition?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. DOYLE", "preceding_text": "nnot bear the word \"tariff,\" but they go much further. They are in favour of Prohibition, which means that they will not let things in at all. I believe that the Socialist policy lies in another direction altogether. I believe that a Socialist country would prohibit absolutely the importation of sweated goods\". So says the hon. Member for Dundee, but let us see how Prohibition will work out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2194.5", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. DOYLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. DOYLE", "preceding_text": "epresent the great organised industry of the coal trade. There is a rumour that a syndicate has been started in Glasgow for the purpose of importing German coal cheaper than it can be produced in Lanarkshire or in this country generally. I am told that the syndicate is shortly about to operate and that German coal will be imported into this country more cheaply than it can be produced at our pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2194.5", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. DOYLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Remove the mining royalties!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. DOYLE", "preceding_text": "is Hugo Stinnes. There is no need for me to dwell upon the serious position in the coal trade in this country. To-day the owners are not making a profit, or are making very little profit, and the men are not getting subsistence wages, and in many cases it seems that the industry cannot go on. If German coal is coming in here to undercut your coal in your great industries, what are you going to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2196.0", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Motion. I cannot help thinking that many hon. Members on the Labour Benches will go homo to-night with food for thought. They will begin to wonder where they stand, because they have heard such plain truths from my hon. Friend with regard to statements made by various important members of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2198.2", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who brings it in?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will not think that I wish to misrepresent him; far be it from that. But I have stated the fact exactly, and I repeat that I am delighted that the discussion so far has brought out a confession by one hon. Member that he is opposed to permitting the product of sweated labour to come into this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2198.2", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not believe in it! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "f sweated labour to come into this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who brings it in?\"] Who brings it in? The result, unfortunately, of the policy that operates at the present time. I do not disguise the fact that I have always been in favour of the policy of protecting our own industries in this country, and I have stated so. But, unfortunately, it is not the policy of the Government at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2199.1", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How did we pay for them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "rotecting labour in this country. What are the figures? In the year 1913 £178,000,000 worth of foreign manufactured articles were imported. In 1921 the figure was £225,000,000; in 1922 it was £229,000,000; in 1923 it was £256,000,000, and in 1924 no less than £299,865,978 worth, or practically £300,000,000 worth of foreign manufactured articles came into this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2199.1", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "w, and I challenge my hon. Friends above the Gangway to controvert my statement. If you can get another £75,000,000 of wages in this country, it does not require a great amount of common sense to see that it must be a benefit to this country. I am delighted to have the opportunity of seconding the Motion. I am going to call a halt now although there are many other things I should like to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2202.1", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "always has been our policy, has two parts: first of all, that we are opposed to tariffs, and, secondly, that we do not fact inclined to join in the Hallelujah Chorus to the blessings of Free Trade which is very often set up in the camp of our hon. Friends on the higher benches below the Gangway. We do not believe that Free Trade alone is any remedy for the social evils from which we are suffering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2202.1", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ist system are, first, its failure to deliver the goods in sufficient quantity, and, secondly, the delivery of most of them at the wrong addresses, in addition to which we draw a very broad indictment against the land system of this country, under which, by uncontrolled private ownership, you have large quantities of the land of this country either wasted, misused, or withheld from use altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2207.0", "colnum": "2207", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "ountry. I believe that is just how you feel about it now, and, further, I believe that that is just how you have acted ever since the rise of trade unionism in this country. I want to say more than that. I want to say that all the power of Parliament and all the civil power possessed by Parliament has been used for the purpose of destroying the progress of the trade union movement in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2217.1", "colnum": "2217", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "xpect him to do. I do not want to say any more about the matter, but I do want, by getting the utmost publicity for this statement, to try to stop for ever the use of this slander. I accept, of course, entirely the hon. Member's statement if he says he did not know the facts, but all I have to say is that people who make statements as grave as that should go to some trouble to ascertain the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2217.1", "colnum": "2217", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "ing with hon. Members in taking steps towards that end. I say that, after reading the \"Forward\" of 21st February, and in spite of the very severe things that the hon. Member for Dundee (Mr. Johnston) there says about those who think as I do, I am perfectly prepared, and every Free Trader is perfectly prepared, to stop sweating conditions, and to join with hon. Members in taking appropriate action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2219.1", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must excuse me if I say that I cannot make myself responsible for what happened in 1921.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2219.1", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "do not think that even the hon. Member for Dundee took the trouble of defining sweated labour. Perhaps I can hardly be considered an authority on that subject, but perhaps sweated labour is meant to be something of this sort: Labour which under the conditions which obtain in the country where that labour operates does not receive a wage which enables labour to live up to a decent standard of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2219.1", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "? Hon. Members opposite who support the doctrine contained in this Motion believe that the import of manufactured goods into this country means, or makes, unemployment for British labour. If that be a fact, then I suppose that if we sit with folded arms, that process is likely to go on, more and more imported goods will come into this country, and more and more British workmen will be out of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2225.1", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "It is a poor country that has not got one E1 Dorado, but I am quite sure the hon. Member would recognise at once, and would admit at once, that the position in America is not due to the fact that America is protected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-17", "file": "debates1925-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "1ffa96dd1813467e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2225.1", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "nd, and to France, and I see all those countries protected by tariff walls, and I see working people working long hours, getting low wages, and a poor standard of life. We say these two things are obviously not enough on their own. We have got our ultimate theory also, as we believe that all this poverty and overworking and the poor life that workers generally have is due to the capitalist system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-17a.2225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-18", "file": "debates1925-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e8397dc62baa146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2277.7", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Move another Resolution!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice that, on this day fortnight, my hon. and gallant Friend (Lieut.-Colonel Watts-Morgan) will call attention to the question of Mothers' Pensions, and move a Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2277.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-18", "file": "debates1925-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e8397dc62baa146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2312.2", "colnum": "2312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "preceding_text": " involve from £15,000,000 to £25,000,000 of capital, and £10,000,000 to £15,000,000 paid in wages to the workmen. I just want to say one more thing, and that will be a few remarks to the managers of these sugar beet factories. I do not believe that the sugar beet factories are paying enough to the farmer for his beet. I think at the moment they are paying the farmer 44s. a ton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2312.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-03-18", "file": "debates1925-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e8397dc62baa146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2313.1", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "54s. now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "What is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-18", "file": "debates1925-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e8397dc62baa146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2336.2", "colnum": "2336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOOD", "preceding_text": " been placed fairly satisfactorily, and, speaking generally, the factories can look forward to a fair supply of the raw material. I apologise for saying so much, but that is all I need say, except to conclude by pointing out that it has been an easy task for a Minister to pilot this Bill through its stages, because it appealed to me as the deserted child of the right hon. Gentleman opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-18", "file": "debates1925-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e8397dc62baa146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2338.0", "colnum": "2338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "present Minister. They have conducted their advocacy of the Bill in a very persuasive way, against which none of us who have views against the Bill can make any complaint. But some of us who do not agree with the principle of the Bill, are rather surprised that Liberal Members below the Gangway should have delayed their entry into the Debate so late on the Report stage last night and to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-18", "file": "debates1925-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e8397dc62baa146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2347.1", "colnum": "2347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to know that he is going to do so. I presume his neighbour, the late Financial Secretary to the Treasury and one of the authors of the Bill, is going to vote for it, and the spectacle of the Labour Front Bench divided on this Measure is one which will naturally cause a great deal of interest in other parts of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-18", "file": "debates1925-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e8397dc62baa146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2354.0", "colnum": "2354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are coming on beautifully!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "e you going to end \"? I am interested in the specific case that is before us now, and what we have to do is to consider whether the condition of certain industries, or the absence of certain industries, does not justify a positive policy on the part of the State, rather than a negative policy, because half a century ago a certain very respected politician and economist laid down certain doctrines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-18", "file": "debates1925-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e8397dc62baa146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2383.1", "colnum": "2383", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did you read them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "sitting round a table knowing when the last drains were laid down in particular areas and able to follow out the whole details of management. You cannot have that with an enormous area. I was a member of the City Council of Glasgow many years ago. Even then the volume of 'business was colossal. It was practically a wholetime job. It was an enormous amount of work to read the minutes and documents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-18", "file": "debates1925-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e8397dc62baa146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2385.0", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALEXANDER SPROT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALEXANDER SPROT", "preceding_text": "es at that time amounted to 3s. 6d. in the £. In 1923 they had risen to 6s. in the £. There is no doubt whatever that if this annexation is granted, and if this Bill is passed into law, one of the first things that the city will do will be to engage in all sorts of schemes which will cast greater expense on the citizens, and there will in all probability be another increase in the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-18", "file": "debates1925-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e8397dc62baa146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2389.0", "colnum": "2389", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are they doing wrong?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": " for the extension of boundaries. If a prima facie case is demanded, is there not there a prima facie case on which this House would have full justification in acting? Already, as everyone knows who is connected with Glasgow, the population is spreading over into the surrounding areas, and a great part of the people, in fact, the main part of the people to be annexed, are working in Glasgow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-18", "file": "debates1925-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e8397dc62baa146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2389.0", "colnum": "2389", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Leeds and Bradford.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "w—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Are they doing wrong?\"]—I am not saying that they are wrong, but I am giving reasons why you should inquire as to whether the boundary should be extended. I am not asking the House to come to a decision tonight, but to remit these allegations to a Committee for the purpose of consideration. This is something that the House has never in similar circumstances refused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2389.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-18", "file": "debates1925-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "9e8397dc62baa146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2432.1", "colnum": "2432", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1924-25.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "rch of Scotland, seeing that it is a national Church of Scotland and has a duty to the nation as a whole, if it finds that in a particular part of Scotland a portion of the community were not or could not be conveniently or adequately served by its administrations, and there is a sister Church with the same ideals and the same beliefs ready to take on the work it might assist it in that direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-18a.2432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2518.1", "colnum": "2518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "As to the Dockyards, I have not yet had time to explore the situation very fully. My time has been largely taken up with polite conversations with my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2522.1", "colnum": "2522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "eaking was £ 204,000, but. we have provided in the Estimates for £ 250,000, for two reasons. The first is that whatever we spend this year will only be deducted from the expenditure in future years, and therefore if we can spend up to £ 250,000 it would be an advantage. We have already got £ 250,000 for this purpose, and therefore it would be just as well to spend it if we can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2522.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2524.6", "colnum": "2524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They thought they were of much more use!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "Because they have devoted the money intended for Singapore to building cruisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2524.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2526.1", "colnum": "2526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "ut against any risk there may be. There is no other nation like our own that is so absolutely dependent upon our overseas trade. There is no other country like our own which is so scattered all over the face of the globe, and if we are at war and unable to protect our very means of existence, all the commodities that come over that route—meat, wool and any number of important articles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2533.1", "colnum": "2533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "icated to-day since I got up, there are some Members on the other side of the House who, at any rate on paper, are great authorities on shipbuilding, both our own and the world's, and who really sincerely believed that we did something wrong, because last year we reduced a programme of eight cruisers to a programme of five. The scheme of building asked, if my memory serves me, seven for this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2540.2", "colnum": "2540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": ".Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "Certainly. There is an increase of £ 5,000,000, and of that £ 2,600,000 is due to the construction costs of the five cruisers. Some of the increase of personnal is caused by the laying down of the five cruisers. The right hon. Gentleman is not prepared now to stand up and take up the attitude of last year on these Estimates. We are the only party that can do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2581.4", "colnum": "2581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should we have it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "I should not have spoken to-night on the subject of the Singapore base, had it not been that I have been prepared for some days for this occasion, and I did not like to take my cooked dinner home again with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2581.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2581.4", "colnum": "2581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In kilts?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "to do compulsory service under the Dutch Government. I was a scutter—not a scooter—what you call in this country a compulsory volunteer. It was not until they found out, although I was in the ranks, that I knew my drill—I had been in the London Scottish—far better than my Dutch captain, that they thought they had better change me over, and they put me into the fire brigade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2581.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2596.0", "colnum": "2596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "preceding_text": "I have a Motion on the Paper on Vote 1 to reduce the amount by £ 100, but as I think there is very little chance of that Vote being reached at a reasonable hour when the Committee is prepared to listen to reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2599.0", "colnum": "2599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What do you know about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "nd the spirit of discipline depend more on the object for which they are to be used than upon the method by which they are imparted or imposed. If these men were to understand that this was an interest which is their own interest, and not somebody else's interest, they would be inspired with a spirit of efficiency and discipline quite different from what naval officers now impose upon naval ranks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2599.0", "colnum": "2599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "that Battersea is not noted as a naval port, though half of Battersea has the honour to be represented by a very valiant naval officer. But what do I know about it? As a member of the Communist party I have greater knowledge of what the Communist system of human freedom in the Army and Navy does for the discipline of the men than any member of any other parties. I will read, Comrade FitzRoy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2599.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2599.0", "colnum": "2599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who by?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "because the outside world had no guarantee that the Conservative party was not coming in in a short time to undo everything that Labour had done. That is the position which gave a signal to the outside nations of the world to carry on with their programme as laid down at Washington. It is no use saying that the action in withdrawing from Singapore of the late Labour Government was not appreciated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2614.0", "colnum": "2614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " on the continued level of high taxation, and who say that if it continues we shall gradually lose our commercial position and that trade and industry of which the hon. Gentleman has just spoken. It is for these reasons my friends have asked me as a protest against these increased Estimates to move a reduction of 100 men in this Vote. It is true the Estimates are up by only about £ 5,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2631.3", "colnum": "2631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "e so sensitive about their holiness. I do not mean to cause dissension among them as to which is holy and which is not. Let us look at this Navy question from a world point of view. It is not that this Government is less pacific than the last Government, but it is that we who believe in peace have to insure, and the best way we can insure is to keep an efficient police patrol throughout the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-19", "file": "debates1925-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "6bd900dc965e0076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2632.1", "colnum": "2632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "d the whole world as it is now—particularly the friends of members opposite in Russia—of leaving the British Empire undefended. I hope hon. Members will forgive me for detaining them so long, but I, like our Prime Minister, am keen on peace and I resent the manner in which some hon. Members opposite regard our efforts to get it. A moral gesture becomes a joke if you are not consistent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-19a.2632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-20", "file": "debates1925-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "bb54672a02bea968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-20a.2670.0", "colnum": "2670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLOTMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "preceding_text": "enerous than those under which allotments were provided by public authorities. If a man has an allotment through a public authority the security of tenure which he enjoys makes up to a great extent for any handicap he may suffer with regard to the terms. If I might put the view of the rural allotment holder, he has to be careful, if he be under a private owner, whether he is a radical or a ranter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-20a.2670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-20", "file": "debates1925-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "bb54672a02bea968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-20a.2677.0", "colnum": "2677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLOTMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "preceding_text": " until every citizen in this country has some property in the form of land which would make him secure so that, in the last resort, if he be threatened by unemployment, through lack of work or by the coercion of an employer or the monopoly of a combine or whatever the reason may be, that man should have something to fall back on of his own and therefore make him an independent and free individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-20a.2677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-20", "file": "debates1925-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "bb54672a02bea968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-20a.2677.0", "colnum": "2677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLOTMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much will it cost to cultivate an allotment of this description?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "preceding_text": " hope it may be possible to amend the Bill so that the maintenance of allotments may be made to include the provision of means by which allotments may be made useful. It is no good merely offering a man land unless you give him the means of cultivating it too. The ordinary bank certainly is not going to advance a credit to allotment holders. It is not what some people call a financial proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-20a.2677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-20", "file": "debates1925-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "bb54672a02bea968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-20a.2695.1", "colnum": "2695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLOTMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": " holders, that the allotment holder has to pay £ 6 per acre for it. It is beyond my comprehension. I think it is time we had a change. There ought to be something in this Bill to prevent that kind of thing happening. If it is good for the farmer who cannot make things pay at £ l per acre, how is it going to be a good thing for the allotment holder to pay £ 6 an acre and make it pay?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-20a.2695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-20", "file": "debates1925-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "bb54672a02bea968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-20a.2719.0", "colnum": "2719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BETHELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So is Socialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BETHELL", "preceding_text": "years of public life, and at the present time I occupy the honourable position of being chairman of the Lancashire group of the Municipal Corporations Association. I therefore may fairly claim that I know a little about this subject. I am sorry, in the first place, that the name of Socialism was mentioned in the Debate. This Bill is for the benefit of all parties and all sections of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-20a.2719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-23", "file": "debates1925-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c12e9ccc1b00aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.80.5", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " be very carefully examined and scrutinised, for reasons which I will give. In that event, the argument against Singapore would not be, as I think, so absolutely on one side as is the argument against the proposition of regarding Singapore as a true naval base. That is what it really comes to. That is a contemplation of war. It is a contemplation of offence, and there is no ground whatever for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.80.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-23", "file": "debates1925-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c12e9ccc1b00aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.90.2", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "tion which the Government authorities in the past have had with regard to this place is that it is not at all an unhealthy situation for troops, and I think the appearance of two hon. Members who have spent long periods of service in this region is sufficient to convince the House that no very serious malady arises from service in that quarter of the globe. That, after all, is a very small matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.90.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-23", "file": "debates1925-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c12e9ccc1b00aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "oint I was going to make can be equally well substantiated on another branch of the right hon. Gentleman's argument. \"What is going to be the effect on Japan,\" he asks, \"of the action which we are taking now?\" He indicates a combination which would involve China and Russia and the possibility of Japan no longer wishing to remain in the state of alliance with us which she is in at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-23", "file": "debates1925-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c12e9ccc1b00aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "00-ton cruisers—with the exception of two of our bulged aircraft carriers they can take them all, excepting, as the hon. and gallant Member rightly said, the newest types of capital ships. But what does that mean? It means that, if we are going to develop along these lines, we are going to be committed to a Western and an Eastern Navy, and that means that we must scrap the Washington Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-23", "file": "debates1925-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c12e9ccc1b00aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "for Maidstone, and others have repeated it, that we have to have regard to Japan in this matter. There can be no other interpretation than that which one is putting on it. What is the good of trying to deceive the House and the country and ourselves in making out that it is something entirely different from what it is? Be plain and honest about the matter, that you are expecting another war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-23", "file": "debates1925-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c12e9ccc1b00aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "this matter. There can be no other interpretation than that which one is putting on it. What is the good of trying to deceive the House and the country and ourselves in making out that it is something entirely different from what it is? Be plain and honest about the matter, that you are expecting another war—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—that you are taking a step to promote another war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-23", "file": "debates1925-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c12e9ccc1b00aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.137.3", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "aking of, and I cannot imagine any Government which would in this manner neglect vital defences for what are, after all, secondary trade routes in time of war. Surely, when you look at the matter from a larger point of view, the last war showed us one thing which we cannot forget. That is that as long as you can keep your home country free from invasion, you can carry on a war almost indefinitely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-23", "file": "debates1925-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c12e9ccc1b00aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CONNOLLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Try Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CONNOLLY", "preceding_text": "girt island, protected by our own Fleet, protected again by the great Air Arm? Would we be safe here? No, we would not. Would we be Cafe on the highly fortified rock of Gibraltar? No. Is safety behind the armed frontiers of India, or in Africa, or in Australia, under the protection of our Navy? No. We know that there is no such thing as immunity from danger in these places, and where are we to go?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-23", "file": "debates1925-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c12e9ccc1b00aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will happen!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " States, we see to the north of them one of the greatest countries in the world, with only one-twelfth of their population, and we see Mexico to the south of them. We remember that the United States are peopled very largely with people of our own blood, and they are the hungriest earth-seekers in the world. We only want to use common sense and a little human judgment to see what must happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-23", "file": "debates1925-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c12e9ccc1b00aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.169.8", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "nable young boys and girls to have a proper start in life. Money cannot be provided for these purposes if we are to continue spending the sums we are now spending upon the Army and the other armed forces of the Crown. The Minister spoke of these Estimates as an insurance against war. The best form of insurance against war and the best form of insurance that any country can have is moral insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.169.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-23", "file": "debates1925-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c12e9ccc1b00aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.169.8", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1914!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": " insurance. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members opposite laugh. They doubt that. If they examine the history of any State, they will find that the progressive, first of all, becomes moral, then it becomes intelligent, and then it becomes rich. The decaying State first of all becomes immoral, then it becomes stupid, and then it becomes poor. The best form of insurance, clearly, is a form of moral insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.169.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-23", "file": "debates1925-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c12e9ccc1b00aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.169.8", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "money should be saved upon the least important and devoted to the more important arm of the Crown. In this way the money would be saved from the Army and devoted to the purposes of the Air Force. In these Estimates a great deal of money is being spent upon the least important sections of the Army. For instance, I see that it is proposed to spent this year a sum of £1,308,400 upon the cavalry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.169.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-23", "file": "debates1925-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "6c12e9ccc1b00aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To amuse the children!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "an we have so far received. The Air Force has a personnel of 36,000, which is a considerable total compared with the personnel of the Army. I notice that a point made by the Mover of this Amendment in reference to cavalry was received with some laughter on the other side of the House. I do not pretend to be an expert in these matters, but I ask myself what is the use of maintaining 12,000 cavalry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-23a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-24", "file": "debates1925-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bace510e283f6a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.215.6", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why ask for it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I have the information from a recognised source?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.215.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-03-24", "file": "debates1925-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bace510e283f6a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Why not £5?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the men employed in Government Departments all over the country, and particularly in the London area, are now sending in an application for a minimum wage of £3per week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.225.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-24", "file": "debates1925-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bace510e283f6a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENEVA PROTOCOL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "he Protocol had been disposed of. We have not yet been told the plan that the Government mean to pursue. Great questions involving the lives, the liberties, the destinies of whole nations, are not to be dealt with in this way. The Government must be reminded that the issue with which they are dealing is literally one of life or death to millions of plain people. In conclusion, I wish to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-24", "file": "debates1925-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bace510e283f6a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.332.4", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "If I said that, it is wrong. I certainly thought I said the decision the British High Commissioner took of this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-24", "file": "debates1925-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bace510e283f6a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.332.4", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"What about the Versailles Treaty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "agery of war. A treaty of arbitration, to be effective under present conditions, must have two characteristics. The first is, that all questions that are likely to provoke war in Europe should be included. Unless you do that it is no good. It is simply a snare. It is simply a method of encouraging forces of their own behind arrangements and treaties which the conscience of this country repudiates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-24", "file": "debates1925-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bace510e283f6a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " as this, and I know it is not always easy to keep an experienced team together in, order. I am not at all sure that I did not give trouble once or twice to my chief. I think he used to scan my speeches with a good deal of anxiety and a good deal of relief at the end when there was nothing that would call for the attention of the House of Commons. But this is undoubtedly a very grave indiscretion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-24", "file": "debates1925-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "bace510e283f6a9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES SMITH", "preceding_text": "Pact of alliance with France or this five-Power Pact including Germany. On that point might I ask the Prime Minister a question which I believe is of very great importance. The Foreign Secretary told us what Germany pro- posed; that she would accept for ever her western frontiers, and he stated that she was willing to submit all questions regarding her eastern frontiers to treaties of arbitration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-24a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.415.3", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in Springburn last week applicants were being asked to produce evidence of having been looking for work, and will he have that stopped at once?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALBERY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALBERY", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman not think it possible to issue some instructions in the case of men who are, say, over 60 years of age to the effect that they should be dealt with in a specially lenient manner? These men regard it as a great hardship that young men of 25 should be receiving extended benefit, which has in fact become a dole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.419.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.427.6", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": "If the Minister is going to pass this Bill into law this Session, why does he make such heavy weather of it? Why does he not adopt the Bill of his Conservative predecessor in office, or is the present First Lord of the Admiralty considered to be too Socialistic for the present Home Secretary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.427.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.465.4", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES STEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More than that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES STEWART", "preceding_text": "have improved their condition very much. What has been the position of the tenants during that time? Just after 1920, when the Act was passed, there came the debacle when wages fell. Today in this country it is reckoned, on the most conservative estimate, that so far as the working classes are concerned they are losing annually, as compared with the year 1920, £600,000,000 per annum in wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.465.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER, \"Are not all lawyers competent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "preceding_text": " to blame the draftsmen. I do not know where the blame lies—it may lie with all of us—but the net result has been that we have to-day an extraordinary tangle. and when we consider that this legislation is dealing primarily with poor people, who do not understand law and who, possibly, are not able to consult lawyers, or, if they do, possibly do not consult very competent lawyers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ication, under the existing law, if any action is brought by the landlord to try and enforce the increase of rent, the tenant can raise by way of defence the fact that the repairs for which the landlord is liable have not been done. So that the position which the hon. Member for Camlachie induced my hon. Friend to think requires rectification has been completely covered during the last five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are not any!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN JONES", "preceding_text": "district such as I represent that they have certain rights under the law. How are they going to enforce the law? Even the town council find themselves in difficulty, and so do the public health committee, when they take action, until we find we are led up from one set of lawyers to another. Probably the Bill has been drafted with the idea of finding work for the unemployed of the legal profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.527.3", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "has obtained a certificate justifying the collection of the same. Such an alteration would give a great, deal of satisfaction to millions of tenants and make them more content than they are to-day. They would then know that they were paying their money for something which they had got instead of paying as at present for something which they have not got. In reference to the interest charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.527.3", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are reading your speech!'", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": " more content than they are to-day. They would then know that they were paying their money for something which they had got instead of paying as at present for something which they have not got. In reference to the interest charges—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] If the hon. Members who keep on shouting \"Order!\" would keep order themselves and allow me to proceed we should get on much more quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I certainly will tell the right hon. Gentleman. The electors were told that the whole situation would be reviewed. They were not told what the result of that review would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.544.3", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "is house-tohouse delivery there are only two grades of coal, best coal 2s. 8d. per cwt. and nuts 2s. 7d. per cwt. I think I have said enough to show that when you buy the best you get the best, or the next best; the only thing that is always best is the price. It reminds me of some hon. Members with whom I have had the pleasure of playing golf, who possess high handicaps and rather light scruples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.544.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it a fact that the wages in South Wales are 10s.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EVANS", "preceding_text": "he House that he and his Department are satisfied that everything is as it should be in connection with the coal industry and that he is satisfied that there is no waste, that there is complete. organisation and plenty of initiative and that there is no profiteering, and profiteering of the meanest form, consisting as it does of trading at the expense of one of the prime necessities of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": " cent. of the coal that comes into London is rail-borne. Notwithstanding, we have these loose statements made. I have heard statements made again and again in this House, that 19s. 9d. was the price of house coal at the pit head, and that the same coal was 55s. to 60s. a ton in London. The question asked is, \"Why the difference?\" I have heard responsible miners' representatives say the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "h the different items. There is a big difference between 19s. 9d. and 27s. 9d. as the pit-head price, quoted by the Mover of the Resolution. I want to show where the difference comes in. As hon. Members opposite know, there is a difference between hard coal and soft coal, and the percentages that you can get in small and round coal. Let me take an assumed case of, say, 35 per cent. of slack at 8s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.555.5", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What pit?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "I am speaking of house coal, and it would require the pit to charge 30s. 2d. for round coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.555.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.555.5", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "I am speaking of house coal, and it would require the pit to charge 30s. 2d. for round coal—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What pit?\"] I am not giving the name of the pit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.555.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "h, and there are districts, which I know, in which distribution has been going on for the last 35 years, and in these places they have decreased their supplies. I have as much information on that point as my hon. Friend opposite. I hope, therefore, that the House will not be led away by the pretext of hon. Members opposite. It has been said from these benches that what we want is municipalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "an they had been in the habit of getting, and, of course, they are net desirous of going back. The ordinary distribution of coal in London is done by a, man at piecework. That is rather unfortunate. I have been a representative of the men before the Coal Merchants' Association in London on many occasions. I have tried to get the men to agitate for a weekly wage and not to do the work by piecework.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Motion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "to set abort relieving themselves of the chains that have been wound around them. Probably the Debate to-night will help the Minister to go into the question of these retail prices and to see whether something cannot be done to enable the poor consumers to get coal more cheaply than they are getting it now. I will not say that there are exorbitant profits being made by anybody. I have not said so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "for this particular quarter throughout the whole of England was 13s. 8.19d., and of course in South Wales it was considerably higher. The selling price at the pit-mouth of that coal was 19s. 1.87d.—that was the average price. The total cost of that coal was 19s. 1.58d., and the owners get 0.29 of a penny per ton during that quarter, and the miners got 13s. 8.19d. per ton during that quarter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "We have hon. Members saying in this House that the miners receive a very small proportion of the proceeds of the sale of coal, and yet we have the actual Government figures that the proceeds of the sale of the coal during that quarter were allocated as I have described, and the figures for other quarters are nearly about the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-25", "file": "debates1925-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "7b09ca676f8fb9fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.567.2", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL PRICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The London County Council area?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "preceding_text": "stribution of half the coal in London, there was an average profit of Is. 7d. per ten. The 1s. 7d. a ton may seem somewhat small. I went to the trouble yesterday to try to ascertain what is the amount of coal distributed in London, and I find that, as ascertained by the Mines Department last year, for domestic purposes there is round about 5½ million tons of coal consumed in London each year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-25a.567.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.608.9", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WILD ANIMALS, BARNET.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman say whether any of these peculiar animals have ever escaped into the House of Commons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.608.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.632.6", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ITALIAN CORPORATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "Is it the case that the very financier who negotiated this scheme was later awarded by being appointed a member of the Geddes Economy Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.632.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "he head of Liberals like myself because we took the view that it was much too summary a process to say to a Labour Government that had been in office for four months that they must instantly leave office because at that time they had not produced adequate plans. Whether or not that decision brought about the electoral result which reduced the number of Liberal Members in this House, I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not even a rabbit!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "h reduced the number of Liberal Members in this House, I do not know. [ Laughter. ] At any rate, that is what happened, and if the great battalions opposite are disposed to be amused by it, allow me to sober them by reminding them that the Government they are supporting has been sitting on the Treasury Bench for more than four months, and has not up to the present produced anything whatever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "han four months, and has not up to the present produced anything whatever—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Not even a rabbit!\"]as my hon. Friend remarks, not even a rabbit. I think it is fair to make this further observation. But for the fact that the Labour Government was condemned on other grounds, it may well be that plans which they said they were working at might by this time have produced some fruit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has happened to them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "—and I think it is a great loss to the new House of Commons, that he is not here now: I refer to Mr. Masterman—moved that that should be excluded. He moved it with such success and with such universal approval that ultimately the proposal, brought in by the Labour Government, was defeated by 359 votes to three. There were three people who voted for it—none of them Labour Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Trade union restrictions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ouses, if we did not know how to build houses, if we had no skill in the making of houses, then one could understand why there were no houses. We are short of houses to-day, not through the lack of raw materials. There may be a difficulty in getting bricks, but that is not the original form of the raw material; the raw material is there, we know how to build the houses. Why have we not got houses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about a Welshman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "preceding_text": " view of the problem is and what the future effects are likely to be. I say, with all humility, that I wish the Prime Minister was dealing with this subject, but I will try and give as ample information as lies in my power and which belongs to my status to do. It is a rash thing for an Englishman to prophesy, but it is crime for a Scotsman to prophesy, and, therefore, I do it with some hesitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.773.2", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "partly by administration and partly by other functions which I think a Government can easily exercise, can be brought into existence. I hope I shall not be out of order in merely stating the contrary to the Socialist proposition, namely, that it is through the development of private property among a much larger proportion of the members of this community that the way to safety and prosperity lies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.773.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.776.0", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": " safeguard those who are now at work. You would have to safeguard the employed man against bring discharged, in order to let another man take his place so as to get the value of his insurance benefit. Mind you, to me such a proposition is unthinkable. I do not believe that any employer in the country would do it, and I am sure not a workman would stop in his works if he tried anything of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.784.3", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "ly urged against any scheme which is of its nature temporary. You must assume, if this scheme is to be established, some normal datum line of unemployment. You must get people to agree that in an industrial community of 14,000,000 people you may always get a number of people out of work on a certain day. Some datum line far below the present line, which is quite abnormal, would have to be assumed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.784.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "preceding_text": "tion, that there must be very great changes in the country if ever it is to return to the position in which it once was. I do not want to enter into a discussion of the Socialist as against the non-Socialist position, but this I will say, that everybody who believes in the capitalist system of society takes it for granted that there must be a margin of unemployment in order to keep industry going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not you say that on the Sugar Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ate in regard to his proposal, nor has he to-day. As a matter of fact, if you had a subsidy of this kind you could not possibly limit it to the amount of the dole paid to a particular man. If you are going to make this scheme work, you have got to make it work irrespective of the number of men who might be for the moment on the dole. That is where the right hon. Member's scheme is not practicable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.801.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.804.2", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "n of the heretic and are prepared to be either burned at the stake with him or to adopt another Shorter Catechism for their party. I see there my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Leith (Captain Benn) who is the particular custodian of the Free Trade conscience. Might I ask him—and I do not hesitate to do that, because he always asks me questions—whether he endorses this proposal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-26", "file": "debates1925-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "877ab965f93d0e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.805.3", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are the Government doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " and the supply of commodities to us from them in exchange for our own commodities. Where can you find that better than within the Empire? Hon. Members opposite always tell us that the great thing we should look for in industry is co-operation—something on the lines of the co-operative society. Where can you find such a great co-operative society as in the mutual trade of the British Empire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-26a.805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.831.4", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too high.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "o was the finest coal mining and exporting area in the world, a similar workman is getting 8s. 0¾d.; in Scotland he is getting 7s. 10½d.; in Durham and Lancashire 7s. 6½d., and in Northumberland 7s. 7½d. Multiplying those amounts by the working time, which, putting it at the very highest, could not be more than 5½ days per week—I am giving you the very outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.831.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt with a question, before the right hon. Gentleman leaves this subject? I gather that the 8s. 8d., which he quoted as the figure for the underground workers, is for some of the higher-paid men in the pit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": " such comparatively low wages. But the right hon. Gentleman knows, as we all know, that the wages in an industry must depend upon the earning capacity of the industry. At the present time the coal industry of this country is faced with a competition which it has never encountered before. Everyone knows that the competition from German coal is now greater than it has ever been in the memory of man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You make them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "t the competition from German coal is now greater than it has ever been in the memory of man. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] If that be disputed, it can be easily established later on. The competition of German coal from the Ruhr, and the use of lignite in Germany for power purposes, is enabling Germany to send coal abroad far more cheaply than we can from this country. The German miners work longer hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sankey lines!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "ether, and work out their own salvation for themselves. Perhaps I am more optimistic than hon. Gentlemen opposite, but it seems to me that if those who are working in an industry cannot help themselves, nothing really can be done for the industry. Those concerned must get together. In the coal industry they have so to reorganise the industry that it can be worked on better and more economic lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "preceding_text": "n us some facts from which the House might judge. My first point is that the time is very inopportune for the introduction of this Bill. We have been suffering in this country from agitations, from strikes, from lock-outs—it does not matter what the cause has been—for the last 20 years. Now, for the first time in the history of the trade, the two sides have agreed to sit round a table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "preceding_text": "s not matter what the cause has been—for the last 20 years. Now, for the first time in the history of the trade, the two sides have agreed to sit round a table.[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I think I am merely stating a fact when I say that for the first time they have voluntarily agreed to do so. [HON. MRMBERS: \"No!\"] The fact remains that there is a Committee. I do not wish to quibble about words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is nothing new.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. REES", "preceding_text": "eas in this country wages only in 1924 represented 13s. 2¼d. per ton. To that we have to add overhead charges and other costs, and it works out at something like 20s. or 21s. There is the startling fact, which is of real interest to the miners, that the Americans are able to produce coal at 55 per cent. less than we can produce it in this country. There you have the root cause of the trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.845.3", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. REES", "preceding_text": "mum wage Act in the sense that this Bill is intended to be but was passed to overcome the special difficulty that you find in every mine. There are places in every mine where, however hard a man may work, he cannot produce sufficient coal to provide a wage equal to that of the man who is working in a better place and producing more coal. The object of the 1912 Act was to deal with that difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.845.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. REES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. REES", "preceding_text": "There is nothing in the original Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.850.3", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. REES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. REES", "preceding_text": "hat the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer supplies us with the reasons. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) wrote a -very interesting article a few weeks ago, and this is a paragraph from it: The present wages movements in the mining and engineering industries, in the railway and other transport services, are being exploited by the Communists for revolutionary purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.850.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The levy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "ose figures mean from the standpoint of a weekly wage. They mean 50s., 55s. and 60s. Let us see what we can do with 50s. a week. As has been already explained to the House a wage of 50s. does not mean that that is the amount to be taken home, because substantial deductions are made from that wage on account of unemployment insurance, health insurance, doctor, hospital and a number of other things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": "ey to local agitators. I do not in any way refer to the estimable gentlemen opposite. I wish these agitators were all like them, but, unfortunately, hon. Gentlemen opposite do not appear to exercise control in the coal field. There is not that control which should exist, and there is constant agitation. We have only to look back to history to find that in the great strike of 1st April, 1921—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": " to exercise control in the coal field. There is not that control which should exist, and there is constant agitation. We have only to look back to history to find that in the great strike of 1st April, 1921—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"] Whatever you may call it, it paralysed British industry in every direction and lost us markets abroad which we shall probably never recover That strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sooner than that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": "agitators who, by means of the irritation strike and every other method, are endeavouring to bring the mines to oa standstill and to prevent them paying, in the hope that the owners may be glad to get rid of them. I therefore take the opportunity of opposing this Bill because it is an unreal Bill, and is brought forward as dope to the miners. It is propaganda for the next General Election in 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.877.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": " them. I therefore take the opportunity of opposing this Bill because it is an unreal Bill, and is brought forward as dope to the miners. It is propaganda for the next General Election in 1931. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sooner than that!\"] We shall get in unopposed next time. Further, I contend that the present is not an opportune time for bringing forward a Minimum Wages Bill. Negotiations are in progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.877.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.894.4", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": "es in an Act of Parliament … I want to point out to my hon. Friends who represent the miners the peculiar dangers which the adoption of this proposal might lead to.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 22nd March, 1912; col. 2242, Vol. 35.] Then he went on to deal with the danger that if a figure were put into the Bill it might become the subject of bidding at elections and lead to political corruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.894.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.894.4", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": "ol. 35.] Then he went on to deal with the danger that if a figure were put into the Bill it might become the subject of bidding at elections and lead to political corruption. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Those are the words of the Prime Minister of the day, and I think everyone must realise that there is a real difficulty in that connection. We are just as anxious to avoid political corruption as he was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.894.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Give them to us!", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": "e Government intend to spare no money, no energy and no effort to develop that process and make it a commercial success. That is one ray of hope, but beyond that I see very little indeed. There is no use suggesting various other remedies. There is no use talking about rasing the price of coal or about subsidies. How are you going to deal with the situation if pits are closing all over the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "e about it. The Bill asks this House to say to what they think the minimum value of the miner is. If the House thinks the value in the Bill is too high for the miners, they will vote against it; but I would point out that the wage asked for is not a living wage. In conclusion, I can assure my hon. Friends on the opposite side of the House that this Bill is not put forward for political propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-27", "file": "debates1925-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "46ffec468003adbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES (MINIMUM WAGE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\" and \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "this Bill to-day we shall, inside and outside this House, agitate—if you like to call it so—all the time until we have made it possible for our people to have a full chance to live a fair standard of life. I want to suggest that every Member to-day who votes against this Bill is expressing by his vote that he thinks that the miners are of much less value than the figures we have given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-27a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-30", "file": "debates1925-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "68e5b452762d1c6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-30a.923.2", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE (LORD BALFOUR'S VISIT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "Certainly. I observe that he read the lessons yesterday in the Anglican Cathedral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-30a.923.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-30", "file": "debates1925-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "68e5b452762d1c6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-30a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROADS IMPROVEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "oposal I have made that he should take powers under this Bill—in case there may not be another opportunity of doing so for some time to come—so as to provide a grant for the lighting of these roads. We cannot expect already heavily burdened local authorities to undertake this additional charge. In my own case, we have just had an increase of nearly 1s. in the £ in the rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-30a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-03-31", "file": "debates1925-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4de60b5a15181599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": " I do not commit the House to this at all, because it must be discussed through the usual channels—that if there be any procedure which makes it practicable, my hon. Friend the Member for Bodmin, who is raising a question of considerable importance to the part of the country which he represents and to other parts of the country, should not be deprived of the opportunity of moving his Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-31", "file": "debates1925-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4de60b5a15181599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I am sure that in this matter the hon. Gentleman has the sympathy of the Whole House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-31", "file": "debates1925-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4de60b5a15181599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in West Ham we can do nothing to abate this overcrowding except by putting these people into the workhouse, as we have no ground to build upon, and financially we cannot bear the strain of building outside. His Department should take cognisance of this fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-03-31", "file": "debates1925-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4de60b5a15181599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1118.4", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MILK.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "If the samples could be taken earlier, would not that be desirable?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "That may be so, but that is not the question on the Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-31", "file": "debates1925-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4de60b5a15181599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1125.3", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "STATE MANAGEMENT (LIQUOR TRADE) ABOLITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "Yes, as compared with 1913.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-31", "file": "debates1925-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4de60b5a15181599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION (GUARANTEE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ed the Wembley Amusements, Limited, was registered with a capital of £50,000 and £3,000 deferred shares. I suggest to the Minister that, he will be doing a great service if he will read through the list of shareholders in that company. He will see what prominent names are associated with it. If he desires that I should read them out I will do so, though it will take a great deal of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-31", "file": "debates1925-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4de60b5a15181599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION (GUARANTEE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which side of the House?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "arm for a worker to go to Wembley on Sunday to enjoy the fresh air and listen to one of our premier bands than it is for any of us to go to Kew Gardens or to Hyde Park or to ride in Rotten Row or to play golf on Sunday. I notice some hon. Members opposite smile at the suggestion. I have been on the Continent and I have seen many distinguished Members of this House at the races on Sunday afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-31", "file": "debates1925-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4de60b5a15181599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION (GUARANTEE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "it that I can see no material good in carrying on this exhibition for another year, and I fear that it will be a failure. I am sorry to say that, because experience has taught people who have been in the show business all their lifetime that where a prolongation or continuation of a big showmanship undertaking is contemplated for a second year or for a further period, it always results in failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-31", "file": "debates1925-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4de60b5a15181599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1205.3", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION (GUARANTEE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "ecent subsistence on which to live. If the Government are going to guarantee these millions of pounds, at all events, it ought to see that the place is sweet and clean so far as our girls are concerned when they go to work in those places. I went to Wembley, along with other hon. Members, last year, and on one occasion I purposely went to the Popular Café to see how the girls were getting on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-31", "file": "debates1925-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4de60b5a15181599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1210.0", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION (GUARANTEE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "y my hon. Friend the junior Member for the University of Oxford (Sir C. Oman). He put forward a very strong plea for a reconsideration of the educational side of the exhibition. I am sorry the name of the President of the Board of Education does not appear on the Bill, because, from my point of view, the exhibition is primarily an educational exhibition. It was used to my personal advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-31", "file": "debates1925-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4de60b5a15181599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACCIDENTS IN MINES.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane-Fox)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane-Fox)", "preceding_text": "ething about demonstrations. On this occasion I can say without hesitation that we are dealing with a subject on which the whole House is agreed, and we all want to attain the same object. There may be differences about the means of getting it, but we all wish to reduce, as far as we can, the number of accidents, although I think the picture has been painted rather more blackly than was necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-31", "file": "debates1925-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4de60b5a15181599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1260.2", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACCIDENTS IN MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": "Is it not far better to have regular inspection of ropes? If you establish a particular life, it is suggested that the rope may be used for 10 years or 15 years, or whatever the period of life suggested may be. The effect is, that during that period no particular care is taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-03-31", "file": "debates1925-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "4de60b5a15181599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACCIDENTS IN MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Seven years in some cases!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "al average increase of 83,000 non-fatal accidents. Working it out in another form, it means that one in six employed above and below ground at the mines suffered injury. It is simply terrible. Supposing hon. Members who are here to-night considered that before the 1st of April of next year one out of every six would have met with an accident serious enough to keep us away from work for seven days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-03-31a.1265.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1299.7", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Arising out of this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1299.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1301.3", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the answer of the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1316.11", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "OPEN SPACES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY COWAN", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY COWAN", "preceding_text": "ation of open spaces—the Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society, the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, and the London Playing Fields Society—but it is supported—and this is very important—by all the national athletic associations which control field sports and pastimes, including the Marylebone Cricket Club, the Rugby Football Union, the Hockey Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1316.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1349.7", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": " only tribunal which has any clear title to judge of a failure of that sort would be a jury composed of the man's own comrades. I say deliberately that if you try those cases of failure by a jury of the man's own comrades, never once would you find the man condemned to death. I do not know whether any hon. Members who are in favour of the retention of the death penalty dissent from that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1349.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1359.2", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are not you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "a whole may be inclined to take the view that capital punishment should be abolished in the Army, and they are perfectly entitled to do so. I believe that most of them take the view that it should be abolished in civil life, and they are perfectly entitled to take that view also. They are also determined, if they can, to abolish war, and they are entitled to take that view, too; and, indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1359.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1377.0", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The rum ration!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "in this Debate to the difficulty of distinguishing between real cowardice and a physical breakdown. I may put the question whether there is such a thing as real cowardice. Because a man after some intensive training cannot manage to get up enough ferocity to stick a bayonet into, another man's stomach are you going to stamp him as a coward? A man may be a coward in the morning and a hero at night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1389.3", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Far more than that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "ent about cases mentioned by an hon. Member here, however honest that hon. Member is, however much he wants to give the full case to us. It is impossible for Members of this Committee to come to a real, sane judgment upon a case that is necessarily sketchily put before it by an hon. Member. The Committee which reported could come to that judgment. They sat day after day for 10 or a dozen sittings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1403.0", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "emove the idea of being blacklegged by organised forces. If the men we try to lead, either by our bad leadership or through their heat, break out and use force, we are not asking to be left alone. When you come to try that, we are quite prepared to take our medicine. I recognise that hon. Members opposite would be quite willing to hang myself and other trade union leaders under such circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1429.0", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY CURTIS-BENNETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In office!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY CURTIS-BENNETT", "preceding_text": "Rochdale (Mr. Kelly) suggested I might do, namely, seeking to hide behind some excuse when I am saying this. I am merely reminding the House that although this matter was discussed in detail, discussed in full, discussed practically and sympathetically in February last, after the statement to which I refer was made by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Labour Government were in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1433.0", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GEOFFREY BUTLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GEOFFREY BUTLER", "preceding_text": "merican critic of our institutions wrote just before the War that he foresaw the breakdown of our Constitution in the divorce which must exist between the Labour Government when it came into power and what he termed the sun-baked Toryism of our experts and permanent officials. It is probably easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a foreigner to understand our institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1442.0", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "nceive how a Christian nation could have gone on so long neglecting the widows when they, of all people, should have 'been the first charge on the State. I rejoice now to think that all parties are in favour of widows' pensions, and I think we can trust the Prime Minister to carry a scheme through. I do not agree that this is a shelving Amendment, and if I believed it was I should vote against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1456.3", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With 400 majority!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "ancellor of the Exchequer in a position more unfortunate than that in which I find myself. I am expected to do all kinds of impossible things. The miracle of the loaves and fishes was a comparatively trivial thing compared with what I am expected to do.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 20th February, 1924; col. 1890, Vol. 169.] What about my right hon. Friend the present Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1458.1", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"The last Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": " manifesto at the last Election, indicated that he was proposing to cover a far wider field than merely widows' pensions. He defined his object to supplement the present old age pension with provision for the aged people beyond the possibility of employment in industry at an earlier age. These subjects cannot be dealt with in the few months that have been at the disposal of the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1461.3", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTHERS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "It is a very well-known method of advocacy, but one more suited to the hon. and learned Gentleman who moved this Amendment than to the right hon. Gentleman who is now indulging in it, to try to shelve one's responsibility and inconsistency by pointing out divisions in some other party. What the Liberal party are anxious for, and that with unanimity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-01", "file": "debates1925-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "ad9aba98f317764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NITROGEN FIXATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "ction and to sell the produce at any minimum or maximum price. In view of the fact that Germany and France a-re now practically self-supporting in this matter, and that the French Government deemed this process important enough to use a national factory for the purpose, it -appears to me that we should get the information which I desire, and I should be very glad if we could have that information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-01a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-04-02", "file": "debates1925-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7c66ddfc16df948a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1477.8", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Circulate it.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel STANLEY", "preceding_text": "I must apologise for the length of this answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1477.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-02", "file": "debates1925-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7c66ddfc16df948a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel STANLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Circulate it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel STANLEY", "preceding_text": "This answer is also very long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-02", "file": "debates1925-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7c66ddfc16df948a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel STANLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel STANLEY", "preceding_text": "This answer is also very long. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Circulate it!\"] I will do so if the hon. Members have no objection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-02", "file": "debates1925-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7c66ddfc16df948a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1521.3", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ASYLUM INMATES (PROPERTY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he will ask the authority to give up to the relatives of this lady such things as clothing and trinkets, which have been retained for a very long period, and which are absolutely necessary. I would also ask that the Minister should be good enough to remember that these people's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-02", "file": "debates1925-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7c66ddfc16df948a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1571.0", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "Any country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-02", "file": "debates1925-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7c66ddfc16df948a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1571.1", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir V. WARRENDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. WARRENDER", "preceding_text": "at is the type of man who is likely to be turned into a far more useful settler than the younger and less responsible young men which the Dominions seem to demand. Such a type of married man has got an anchorage, and his wife looks after that. He is less restless and requires less of the gaiety and the hum and hustle of town life, which, unfortunately, is so much demanded by the country young man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-02", "file": "debates1925-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7c66ddfc16df948a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And running very well!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "k of the Colonial Office is being immensely assisted. I entirely agree with my hon. and gallant. Friend that as the Empire develops—and it is developing tremendously rapidly—we require an increase of specialised knowledge. Every year it is growing. We now have under the ultimate control of the Colonial Office an ever-increasing State railway system scattered throughout the globe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-02", "file": "debates1925-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7c66ddfc16df948a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FRASER", "preceding_text": "all have it.\" I hope he will say that our men \"shall have it,\" and not that he \"hopes they will have it.\" I want to offer one or two concluding remarks in reference to the really serious main issue, which, I think, is brought forward by the attitude of His Majesty's Opposition in regard to this matter. They appear to desire to deny ex-service men some special privilege in the matter of employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-02", "file": "debates1925-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7c66ddfc16df948a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1661.0", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "s opposite. We have heard what a pitiable thing it is that you should put 8,000 men in a position where, when they retire at the age of 60, they will not get a pension. It was spoken of, certainly, by the hon. Member for Middlesbrough (Mr. Thomson), certainly by the hon. Member for Edge Hill (Mr. Hayes), almost as though we were taking the right from persons to a pension who to-day had that right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-02", "file": "debates1925-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7c66ddfc16df948a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "tion of Ex-Service Civil Servants. So far as we can see, the position is this. An agreement has been made with those who, at any rate, cannot be accused of ever desiring to sacrifice the position of the ex-service man, who have fought in season and out of season for the ex-service man, and they are, and say they are—I know, because I have a very large number of them in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-02", "file": "debates1925-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7c66ddfc16df948a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Address the Speaker!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if the hon. Member did not hear, but he was complaining a few minutes ago that I spoke too loud. It is no less important for hon. Members on this side than for those on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-02", "file": "debates1925-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7c66ddfc16df948a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1693.8", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health is present.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again.\" It is customary upon Bills of this character for the Minister in charge of the Department concerned to be present to answer any question, but I do not observe amongst the galaxy of talent on the Treasury Bench any Minister except the hon. and gallant Gentleman representing Scotland who is concerned with this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-02a.1693.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-03", "file": "debates1925-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "b374d044dd5506d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1718.0", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "preceding_text": "s the Church to-day is concerned above all things, to promote the integrity of the family. We find that the Church law and, Canon law is always in favour of adoption, and it is rather curious that we should hear the suggestion put forward, for the first time, that adoption is likely to break up the family. I have here a lot of Latin quotations with which, however, I will not weary the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-03", "file": "debates1925-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "b374d044dd5506d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1732.1", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ike the hon. and learned Gentleman, I have visited that country since the Revolution, and know what has happened. There are many colonies of children there belonging to no one at all, and brought up by the State, and, as a matter of fact, I think they are being as well looked after as circumstances permit. I will not use that argument against the hon. and learned Gentleman; I will only hint at it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-03", "file": "debates1925-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "b374d044dd5506d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1733.2", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has not moved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. and gallant Member for Central Hull (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy) has withdrawn his opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-03", "file": "debates1925-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "b374d044dd5506d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1735.6", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I am quite willing to withdraw, but may I appeal to you, Mr. Speaker. It is really very difficult, when one is talking on a matter about which one feels strongly, and an hon. Member gets up, and says that, because there was not a working woman on the Committee, it was not representative. His reference to puppy dogs and Society was also most insulting, and that is what made me say what I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1735.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-03", "file": "debates1925-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "b374d044dd5506d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1754.6", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CO-PARTNERSHIP BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REGINALD SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\" and \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REGINALD SHAW", "preceding_text": "doing it. We have to remember that in this country to-day the trade unions are a very strong factor. There are among our trade union leaders undoubtedly two different kinds. There are the leaders who believe in nationalisation by force. There are leaders who believe in nationalisation by the aid of such schemes as co-partnership, who believe, honestly as we believe on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1754.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-03", "file": "debates1925-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "b374d044dd5506d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1759.0", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CO-PARTNERSHIP BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BASIL PETO", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BASIL PETO", "preceding_text": "n would be official members appointed, one by the Board of Trade and the other by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is obvious when you come to the proposals of this Bill that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would want to have a say on the Commission with regard to the schemes of co-partnership. As far as this Bill is concerned, it was desired to confine it to industries concerned in production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-03", "file": "debates1925-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "b374d044dd5506d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CO-PARTNERSHIP BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "preceding_text": "Well I am not going to take away anything that they possess. It is not proposed to deal with banking, finance and investing companies, because they are a form of commerce which do not employ a large amount of labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-03", "file": "debates1925-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "b374d044dd5506d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1774.0", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CO-PARTNERSHIP BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are not you a capitalist!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "nd labour, as there ought not to be any opposition. Capital ought to belong to labour and labour ought to be the master and the control of labour. The factor which creates opposition between capital and labour is the unjustifiably existing capitalist, and the only way to remove opposition between capital and labour is to remove this interloper called the individual capitalist who owns the capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-03", "file": "debates1925-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "b374d044dd5506d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1777.0", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CO-PARTNERSHIP BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Free Trade!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "ll in the jute industry formerly. Bengal was the only country that produced raw jute. Some 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 bales of raw jute used to come to Scotland to be worked upon by the Scottish workers; but to-day their share of the work has shrunk to, sometimes, one-fourth or one-fifth of their previous trade, while, in the meantime, the patriotic British employer has opened 74 jute mills in Bengal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-03", "file": "debates1925-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "b374d044dd5506d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1777.3", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CO-PARTNERSHIP BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How would you do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "ot run away from their own country and squat in other peoples' land. I would go further, and I would insist upon carrying out in practice what is piously put forward in the first sentence of this Bill, that there should be no opposition between Capital and Labour. I would achieve that by removing those individuals who are not labour, who are not workers, but who presume to own and control capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-03", "file": "debates1925-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "b374d044dd5506d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1777.3", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CO-PARTNERSHIP BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "e should be no opposition between Capital and Labour. I would achieve that by removing those individuals who are not labour, who are not workers, but who presume to own and control capital. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How would you do it?\"] Hon. Members ask me how I would do it. I would advise them to go from this House a short distance and consult the trade union leaders from Russia, and they will tell them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-03", "file": "debates1925-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "b374d044dd5506d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1777.3", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CO-PARTNERSHIP BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Like yourself !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": " No spinner, no weaver, no smelter, to miner, no carpenter, no bricklayer, no stonemason can do his work correctly if he does not use his brain just as much as the Lord Chancellor and the judges and lawyers and architects and chemists. Each individual worker works by his brain as well as by his hand, while a few lucky ones sit in easy-chairs and pretend to work by brain and refuse to work by hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-03a.1777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-06", "file": "debates1925-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "15b6bb45d4601214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1808.2", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Competition will produce reasonable prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-06", "file": "debates1925-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "15b6bb45d4601214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1829.4", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRAFFIC REGULATIONS, STRATFORD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "I was born there and have lived there all my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-06", "file": "debates1925-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "15b6bb45d4601214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1829.4", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRAFFIC REGULATIONS, STRATFORD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "I was born there and have lived there all my life. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] I put down this question perfectly seriously. I see the danger and I beg to assure the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1829.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-06", "file": "debates1925-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "15b6bb45d4601214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1897.0", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have, you got it into the House? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "cotland, in the Island of Coll, there was great distress 50 years ago, but the then Laird got a first-class cheesemaker over from Wigtown, and himself and his tenants all learnt to make cheese, and P defy any part of Great Britain or the Colonies to make cheese as good as they make it in the Isle of Coll. I have got it introduced into the London market, where it is received with great approbation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-06", "file": "debates1925-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "15b6bb45d4601214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1908.0", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"What is the destination?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "er islands are concerned unless the Secretary for Scotland is going to do something by reducing the enormous freightage rates that obtain at present. Here is a comparison of pre War freights and present freights between 1914 and the present time. Take the cost in connection with Barra. In 1914 the transport of one cow was 5s.; at present it is El. One stirk cost 2s. 6d., and the figure is now 13s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-06", "file": "debates1925-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "15b6bb45d4601214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1929.0", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": " boy from school till he was 14 he was frightened for the cow. Evidently what was in the hon. and learned Gentleman's mind is that he would rather have a boy not frightened for the cow, but, when he reached the age of 14, frightened for the schoolmaster and education. That is the idea that lies behind the whole of the Conservative policy, to try to keep the working-class child from being educated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-06", "file": "debates1925-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "15b6bb45d4601214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1929.0", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "ur miles from the home farm, you are dependent on horse and cart, just the same as Noah, only he had a bullock instead of a horse. How are we to deal with this question of getting the home farm in direct touch in every direction with its outlying parts without racking the horses and straining the men? It may be done more cheaply than by a horse and cart. It can be done by means of aerial ropeways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-06", "file": "debates1925-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "15b6bb45d4601214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1961.1", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Why did you vote for Summer Time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "next year for the purpose of curing the next set of victims who are now being sent out into the world. Tuberculosis has been called a disease of sunlessness. Undoubtedly it is a disease of sleeplessness, and if you have housing conditions in which children, to whom sleep is the most essential thing of existence, instead of having sleep by which they can make good the wastage of their bodies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-06", "file": "debates1925-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "15b6bb45d4601214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1961.1", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "d that is born into this nation, there shall be at least that minimum provided. How can he allow, at this moment, landlords to stand in the way of building houses? Why should he allow the makers of material to stand in the way of building houses? Why should he allow the holders of money to stand in the way of building houses? Why should he allow trade unions to stand in the way of building houses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-06", "file": "debates1925-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "15b6bb45d4601214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1980.0", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "r own view, to be near the works where they are employed. Glasgow, I admit, on the latter point has, perhaps, a different situation to face, but Dundee is certainly in the category of including the two points, and let it be once more stated here, so that there shall be no misunderstanding, that, so far as Dundee was concerned, not only were the two Members returned from Dundee about two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-06a.1980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2010.8", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "preceding_text": "nd what the merchants were selling it at, was 7s., altogether apart from the cost of cartage? The 7s. included 1s. compensation to the merchants because they were not selling the larger quantity of coal that they were before, and for no other reason. In addition to the profit to which the hon. and gallant Gentleman has referred there was 10s. per ton paid by the Corporation to the merchants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2010.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2093.1", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMAN REPARATION (RECOVERY) ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But is that so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. WISE", "preceding_text": "o that matter. If a person, as he stated, bought a piano for £100, £74 was paid to the German exporter and £26 went to the Customs officials; that is not in kind; that is in cash and that is sterling. If you carry out the scheme as suggested in this Resolution it will not be a case of sterling but it will be a case of marks. Supposing you cannot transfer those marks to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2118.3", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "nd Wales on the other, and Scotland on the third. Whereas London alone requires an expenditure on furniture of £2,400, Scotland is only allowed £400 for furniture. Is that because Scotsmen take greater care of the furniture, or that they are content with more frugal furnishing of their offices? I represent an English constituency, but I have a little strain of Scottish blood in my veins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2136.2", "colnum": "2136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WINDSOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WINDSOR", "preceding_text": "eneficent country in a beneficent age, and under what one would consider to be, judging by the Amendment on the Paper, a most glorious capitalist system—one that it would be a shame to destroy. Let us now look at the state of unemployment. It will be remembered that the Prime Minister during his election campaign, like all other political parties, was going to solve the unemployment problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2136.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2142.1", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WINDSOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Trade unions!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WINDSOR", "preceding_text": "#163;30. But let us come a little nearer home and see how London fares in this matter. The London County Council purchased at Beacontree 2,050 acres, the purchase price of which was £295,544. This had a net rateable value of £3,590. In connection with the London County Council estate at Bellingham. 252 acres were bought at a price of £50,339 and the net rateable value was £490.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2143.0", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "preceding_text": "se is called upon to discuss a great many subjects of more or less importance, but I venture to suggest that none is more important than the one raised by this Motion. The one outstanding subject overshadowing all others to-day, the one doctrine is making more converts than any other political creed, the one force influencing legislation more than any other force to-day, is the force of Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2143.0", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have given their decision!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "preceding_text": "vershadowing all others to-day, the one doctrine is making more converts than any other political creed, the one force influencing legislation more than any other force to-day, is the force of Socialism. [ Laughter. ] My hon. Friends on the opposite benches may smile, but they know perfectly well that the outstanding political decision which the people have got to make is for or against Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2143.0", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNNICO", "preceding_text": "e time of this House in dealing with the silly and foolish criticisms that some people pass upon Socialism. When a learned and an able Member of this House stands up and talks about State-pattern house, State-pattern dresses, and State-pattern shoes, it indicates nothing to me except how stupid and foolish at times an able man can be. We are told sometimes that Socialism is a violation of liberty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2153.1", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "preceding_text": "ise that men may be wild at the street corner, the fact is they come here cooing like doves, compared with the sanguinary language they use at street corners. It makes one wonder whether it is true that there is a great number of the followers of the right hon. Gentleman opposite mho desire to see peace in industry. I do not think they do. I believe they wish to upset the present state of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2153.1", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "preceding_text": "id not inspire me with confidence by the look of them, but when you get into close contact with them, possibly they may be different. But what I want to know is why, at a time when there is great economical difficulty in Russia, they want to join with the trade unionists in this country to find some way out? Are they here for the improvement of the conditions of this country and their own country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2156.0", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Major OLIVER STANLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major OLIVER STANLEY", "preceding_text": "st the cause of Socialism. I refer to Mr. G. D. H. Cole. He said: National management by itself will not secure the full co-operation of the workers. Then he goes on to say: State management will only mean management by a State Department. The workers under such management are no more free, so far as the conditions of the workers welfare are concerned, than the workers under capitalist management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2156.0", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Major OLIVER STANLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major OLIVER STANLEY", "preceding_text": "believe that what is called the capitalist class is prepared to make that sacrifice if it can see clearly that it is going to be to the good of the country. What they are not prepared to do is to give in without a struggle to compulsion whose only object is to take away their property and to throw it, with one of the right hon. Gentleman's well-known gestures, down the bottomless pit of Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And when the Jews have gone back!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": " Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden). He, at any rate, was more universal than we are to-night. To-night, the red wine of Socialism has been watered down. The Red Flag has had a coat of whitewash put on it. We are now gradually, by progressive steps, said to be approaching some future day, when all the present unemployed are dead, and all people who live in bad houses have died of disease—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "te—and had a Labour majority as large as the present Conservative majority, he could not do what some hon. Members seem to expect. He said: If a Socialist Government were in power to-morrow with a majority of a couple of hundred like the present Tory Government—even then that Government would not be able to wave a wand and bring them into Socialism. They had to go another way about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "could not do what some hon. Members seem to expect. He said: If a Socialist Government were in power to-morrow with a majority of a couple of hundred like the present Tory Government—even then that Government would not be able to wave a wand and bring them into Socialism. They had to go another way about it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"] Do hon. Members tell their electors that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: They would not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "g them into Socialism. They had to go another way about it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"] Do hon. Members tell their electors that? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Did the two Gentlemen who spoke so ably to-night indicate that even in the happy position mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman the unemployed would remain unemployed, housing conditions would remain bad, and wages would remain low?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in five minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "uld not.\"] If hon. Members allow me to deal with this argument, I will do so, but they must allow me to work it out slowly. The argument we have heard to-night is that all our woes come from a blight which is called the capitalist system, and that it can only be cured by Socialism. The right hon. Gentleman the leader of that party says that if had a majority he could not institute Socialism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "ore practical and useful if we, as Members of this House, were to concentrate on practical and immediate measures for improving the situation? It is curious to find that from this Resolution the very important question of land has been dropped out. One hon. Member did refer to the question of land values. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Aberavon had it in his power to deal with the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "t of our economic evils, and you will have to deal with it on fairly advanced lines if you are ever going to effect any redistribution of the wealth produced by our industrial system. It is useless to imagine that by a mere redistribution of existing wealth you could very largely improve the conditions existing to-day. You must really increase the total amount of wealth as well as redistribute it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-07", "file": "debates1925-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "4f68d2506e2bf9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "l not work. We need not really controvert Socialism, because Socialism is dead. Since the days of Karl Marx, somewhere about 1835 or a little later—he was the father and the inventor of the idea—there has been no cause which is more discredited, which has made less progress, and which has met with such universal non-acceptance in the whole civilised world, as the doctrine of Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-07a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-04-08", "file": "debates1925-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ac074672732fa26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2196.4", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOOKER", "preceding_text": "he attention of the right hon. Gentleman been drawn to the article in the \"Times\" yesterday, from its Pekin correspondent, particularly relating to the position of the railways there at present, and does he not think that the time has arrived for him to consult with the other Powers interested, with a view to taking definite steps to settle the position in China, and is he not further aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2196.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-04-08", "file": "debates1925-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ac074672732fa26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2213.4", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What about the railway fares?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I think this question has had a fair share of attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-08", "file": "debates1925-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ac074672732fa26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2293.0", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL RETURNS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBUBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBUBY", "preceding_text": " and by the Government doing another thing which ought to appeal to the right hon. Gentleman opposite. We, in this country, have never begun to think what is the proper method of education for children in country districts, and I should like to send every Minister of Education across to Denmark to learn from them how to get children to love the soil and to be able to get their living off the soil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-08", "file": "debates1925-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ac074672732fa26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2297.0", "colnum": "2297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL RETURNS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel COURTHOPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where, in Denmark?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel COURTHOPE", "preceding_text": "bus of landlordism. I will ask him, because I believe he is a fair-minded man, to take an opportunity of studying production costs in those countries and in this, and, if he does so, he will find that the one thing that sticks out most, the most striking difference between production costs in those countries and in this is that they pay to their landlords a very much higher rent than is paid here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-08", "file": "debates1925-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ac074672732fa26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2312.0", "colnum": "2312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL RETURNS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "There has been general agreement as to the importance of getting suitable agricultural statistics, so that all of us will have a certain amount of knowledge on this subject. The Minister was rather, I thought, inclined to score to his own satisfaction because of having a certain amount of knowledge that nobody else has. He seemed to me to be rather offensive in the way in which he seemed to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-08", "file": "debates1925-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ac074672732fa26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2313.0", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL RETURNS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "preceding_text": "I desire for several reasons to take part in this Debate. One is that the hon. and gallant Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Sir A. Sinclair) has referred to myself as having expressed the view that it is possible to support the people of this country on the soil, the rivers and the seaboards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-08", "file": "debates1925-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ac074672732fa26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2313.0", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL RETURNS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "preceding_text": "oards. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] That is my opinion, at any rate. I would like to point out that I am the son of an agricultural labourer, who had charge of a 150-acre farm, which I saw improved to such an extent that in five years its yield was increased 50 per cent. It had an orchard of two acres, and with the returns from the orchard and the poultry we were able to pay the rent of £150 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-08", "file": "debates1925-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ac074672732fa26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2316.6", "colnum": "2316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL RETURNS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "preceding_text": "k. Suppose we multiply this by 10,000! Surely that is within the bounds of this Bill. Again, take the question of milk. Our average yield of milk is about 450 gallons per annum from one milking period to the other; but only last week an account appeared in a Glasgow evening paper of a cow at Strathaven, in Lanarkshire, which produced over 3,000 gallons of milk from one milking period to the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2316.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-08", "file": "debates1925-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ac074672732fa26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2358.3", "colnum": "2358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "ion. I have been interested a lot in examinations, and as a result my post bag has been overloaded with tests of questions to put to certain persons. I have been applying some of these tests to Members of this House, tests that have been set to children of 11, 12, and 13 years of age, and I do not think that a single Member I have tested this afternoon with these, questions passed the examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-08", "file": "debates1925-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ac074672732fa26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2360.1", "colnum": "2360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "ndary education not only means status, but it also means far better physical conditions for our schools. I forget the exact figures, but I believe—the President will correct me if I am wrong—that the floor space and the amount of air available are nearly double in a secondary school what they are in an elementary school. The classes are much smaller; the teachers are better paid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-08", "file": "debates1925-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ac074672732fa26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2367.0", "colnum": "2367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "al Exchequer and the local rates amounts to £74,000,000 per annum, of which some 40 odd millions is provided out of the National Exchequer. The corresponding figure in the year ending March, 1901, was £17,000,000, and 10 years later, in the year ending March, 1911, it was £29,000,000. So that we have had progressive figures of £17,000,000, £29,000,000 and £74,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-08", "file": "debates1925-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ac074672732fa26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2367.0", "colnum": "2367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "ear, hear!\"] Hon. Members opposite applaud those figures, and they would like to double them. While they are doubling them, or keeping them at their present figure in order to benefit the children and give them a better education, possibly one which we on these benches would welcome also, they will put an additional load on British industry which will result in unemployment being worse than it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-08", "file": "debates1925-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "0ac074672732fa26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2367.0", "colnum": "2367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECONDARY EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "chool where possibly they would not be able to get that benefit which the schools intended. The hon. Member who seconded the Motion referred to children acquiring self-reliance as one of the benefits they would get during the period of secondary education. I can think of no better way of a child acquiring self-reliance than by a child going out to earn its living and helping its mother and father.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-08a.2367.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-04-09", "file": "debates1925-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "a94107b858ed22a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-09a.2398.5", "colnum": "2398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "who failed to hand in his name had the following Question upon the Order Paper : 7. To ask the Minister of Pensions whether there has been any change in the provision made by his predecessor for an improved system of representation of war pensions committees on the advisory councils and of representation in turn of the advisory councils on the central advisory committee constituted by the War Pens", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "r Astbury) has given me no assistance, but I have had full reports from the Regional Director, the Commissioner of Medical Services, the Regional Awarding Officer and the Medical Assessors, all of whom deny the charge absolutely. I need scarcely add that any such practice would be entirely contrary to all instructions, and, indeed, impossible under the existing organisation of the Regional Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-09a.2398.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-09", "file": "debates1925-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "a94107b858ed22a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-09a.2479.3", "colnum": "2479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about amendments?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "r delegates merely to carry out his advice. Coming to the question of workmen's compensation, there we are wholeheartedly in favour of the Convention. We have led the way in regard to workmen's compensation. Our law is a good one. As I said the other day, I am hoping to codify very shortly all the Workmen's Compensation Acts, and I hope to get the necessary Bill through, if possible, this Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-09a.2479.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-09", "file": "debates1925-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "a94107b858ed22a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-09a.2557.1", "colnum": "2557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the Government's suggestion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member's suggestion does not deal with the real question which we are up against in the case of cheap foreign production. His suggestion may deal with other points, but it, does not deal with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-09a.2557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.8.5", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CLYDE PLEASURE STEAMERS (ENGINEERS' HOURS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER:", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I am not aware that in this case there are any circumstances which would entitle me to intervene. There is this further consideration: That I understand these men are paid a regular salary year in and year out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.8.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.12.5", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER:", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that it is common knowledge in Vienna-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.12.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.12.5", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER:", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that it is common knowledge in Vienna-[Interruption.] I will repeat my question if it amuses hon. Member's. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that it is common knowledge in Vienna—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.12.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "May I draw attention to the fact that that is what is asked in the last part of the question on the Paper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I am speaking of the self-governing Dominions of the Crown. I do not refer to India, but that in no way affects the argument", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " The tremendous flow of demands for expenditure of every kind comes from every quarter, and in the short interval that was available, I could do no more than keep fairly level, and was utterly unable to effect any positive and net economy such as I would have liked to have presented to the House. But if we may now come, and perhaps we may, to a period of settled government and continuity of policy", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.62.2", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the Exchequer having regard to last year's receipt of the arrears of former years. I am not counting in any way on payment by our European Allies of the debts which they owe to us. I am not counting in this Budget in any way on their repayments. Negotiations with France are stilt proceeding—they have been interrupted by the change of Government—and negotiations with Italy will be begun", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.62.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Not now ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " has reached me from the Ministry of Agriculture in the shape of a duty on hops. It is very small, but very shocking; it is nakedly protective. The object of the duty is to protect the culture of hops, and there is a special element of depravity attaching to this duty. A certain school of thinkers contend that beer is food, and, if so, hops are certainly, I am advised, an ingredient of beer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Quite recently ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "m than the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs. I am proud to have been associated with him from the very beginning of those large insurance ideas. The old ideas have been superseded by modern conceptions of scientific State organisation. The conceptions of the party opposite, of course, we know, but they are conceptions which are held not less earnestly, and certainly more practically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Any scheme to be of any use must be contributory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "which the contributions of the workers can be paid. That is the right hon. Gentleman's share in the general architecture of the scheme, if he cares to claim it, but only if he cares to claim it. If he does not wish to claim it, there is no reason why he should. The case of the employers is more difficult, because we know how heavy are the burdens upon our productive industries at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "because we know how heavy are the burdens upon our productive industries at the present time. [HON. MEMBERS \"Oh! \"] I am sure my hon. Friends opposite, however they may feel about these matters—we will have weeks to debate them—would not wish to show anything like an air of levity in dealing with questions which, after all, affect not millions but tens of millions. We may differ—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " called the New Import Duties. I am simply amazed at the audacity of the party in office, after the experience of the last nine months since these duties were repealed, and the only explanation I can suggest is that they are not satisfied with having increased the number of unemployed by 160,000, hut they are determined to ruin an industry which the repeal of the duties last year greatly benefited", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-28", "file": "debates1925-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "f142abab76f45319", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.124.2", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all !\" and \"The sugar beet industry ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": "al industry. If any hon. Member thinks the Government are being particularly remiss in any direction we shall welcome any suggestions. The main suggestion of the hon. Member for Spennymoor was that the Government ought to give a subsidy to the industry. The question of subsidy is one, as he knows, that is being generally considered, but if we subsidise one industry we have got to subsidise others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-28a.124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.151.4", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that, if you take the comparable figures, the numbers for this year are still higher?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.151.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.171.6", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "rplus of more than half a crown, ought to be put in prison for obtaining money from the taxpayer by false pretences. A criticism has been repeated throughout the whole of the year, and I see that it has been repeated in some of the newspapers this morning, that I gave away, unreasonably, revenue last year which might have been devoted to a more useful purpose from the point of view of public need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.171.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.171.6", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about tea?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "reduction of the Sugar Duty, as he doubted whether, if that were done, the reduction would reach the consumer. I took the risk a year ago with this result, that when I made the reduction a year ago the price of sugar was 7d. a pound and I am quoting the figures supplied by the Minister of Labour today the price is 3¾. We took off l¾d. and the reduction is 3½d. Take now other things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.171.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "o know, is not a fixed thing. It is regulated by a thousand considerations and influences, apart from the question of any Excise or Customs duty. For a few months the actual price of tea reflected the reduction of duty. Then there was trade dislocation. There was an attempt to make a corner in tea. Fortunately, through the powerful influence of the cooperative wholesale societies, that was broken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS:\" This year! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ng a speech which the Minister of Health by all rights ought to have made to this House' If the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in order to finance such a scheme, had been called upon to levy taxation, he would have been justified in dealing with it, but this scheme is going to cost the Chancellor of the Exchequer nothing. Indeed, he took great credit to himself that it was going to cost him nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "e capable of some explanation, but it certainly does riot appear upon the Paper. If anybody has any doubt about the protective character of these silk duties,. let him go into the Lobby and look at the tape there, and he will find, under the Stock Exchange news, \"that textiles are strong on imported raw silk duty, and motors have been similarly affected by the reimposition of the McKenna Duties.\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not help British trade? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": ", and he will find, under the Stock Exchange news, \"that textiles are strong on imported raw silk duty, and motors have been similarly affected by the reimposition of the McKenna Duties.\". [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear \"] I have no doubt at all that this is a matter of very great interest to a number of hon. Members opposite. \"Courtaulds opened strong at 105.\" They were 99 at closing time last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why worry? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "out imposing this as a luxury tax. If it be a luxury tax, why did he select silk? Artificial silk is no longer a luxury. Artificial silk has taken the place of cotton, common woollens, and the like, and I see in the newspapers this morning that the head of one of the great fashionable dressmaking establishments in London says that on the dresses they produce it will make practically no difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you take them off? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " women's stockings. I have spoken often in this House on the McKenna Duties, but may I add that I said yesterday, and I thought it necessary that I should make the announcement at the earliest possible moment, that if we come into office again shall at the first opportunity repeal these duties. It is not good for trade that you should have changes of this character with every change of Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "who thought I was giving the exact words, but Mr. Bonar Law said in substance exactly what I stated. He said that duties upon this scale would not he -imposed after the War. The right hon. Gentleman spoke of these taxes as luxury taxes. If that be the case, and he has not imposed them, as we know he has, purely for protective purposes, why did he not put a countervailing Excise Duty on motor-cars?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are all made on this side' \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "Rolls-Boyce, your Lanchester, and your Daimler are quite independent of all foreign competition, and they are not affected in the least by these taxes. I will tell you whom they are going to affect. These duties are going to be paid by people of very moderate means, because it is the cheap car, the two-seater car, the light-powered four-seater car, almost wholly, that are affected by these duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SN0WDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SN0WDEN", "preceding_text": "t for having established a record in his Budget in regard to taxation. I have only one word more. The right hon. Gentleman has chosen to reduce the amount of taxation paid mainly by rich people by a very considerable sum, with the result that the Income Tax payers and Super-tax payers do not contribute a single penny to the cost of the SuppLy services and the general administration of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption and an HON. MEMBER: \"A Daniel come to judgment' \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "and he had not the financial skill to carry out, are now being introduced by the party on the other side. In spite of widows' pensions and old age pensions at 65, he will go about shouting, \"The rich man's Budget!\" Unfortunately for him and his poor man's Budget last year, when he came to the General Election, he and his party did not seem to have obtained that amount of recognition they expected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HoN MEMBER: \"Why did the shares go up?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "s that are worthy of their support. To be successful is in their view the greatest crime any industry can commit. They are, however, making a great mistake, not in the interest merely of the capitalist, but in the interest of those engaged in the factories. I am seriously afraid that this duty will be found to hamper and restrict a large and growing industry, which is not a luxury industry at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Corporation Profits Tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE:", "preceding_text": " encouragement to industry by even the meagre deduction which has been made from the amount of the Income Tax. The late Chancellor of the Exchequer made the complaint that nothing is done to relieve the indirect taxpayer, but when he was affording a very great relief to the indirect taxpayer last year he did nothing at all for the direct taxpayer, unless he chooses to mention Inhabited House Duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Has that happened? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE:", "preceding_text": "t, in the first place, that there had been a great addition to the number of people employed in the trade since the McKenna Duties had been imposed, and I said that there were something like 200,000 people engaged in the motor industry and its subsidiary industries. I went on to say that the employers stated that the abolition of the McKenna Duties would involve the discharge of many of their men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-29", "file": "debates1925-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "2444c922aa2ef63c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Hon.MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "sing distress over a wider area than is sometimes recognised. My hon. Friend who preceded me referred to the fact that there is a depreciation in the number of men engaged in the industry, and I would like to point out that that depreciation is much heavier in Scotland, in proportion, than it is in England, owing, undoubtedly, to Scotsmen being rather less hardy in race than the English people are", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-29a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-30", "file": "debates1925-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4b51428b22dbd801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were reading it! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "Oh, no!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-30", "file": "debates1925-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4b51428b22dbd801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FREDRIC WISE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FREDRIC WISE", "preceding_text": "only £37 per head of the population in the United States of America, and a National Debt of only £2 Os. per head of the population in Germany. That will be an argument for the right hon. Member for Swansea West in regard to the question of the unfair competition which we have to face at the present time. We have an internal debt and an external debt. I am not afraid of our internal debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-30", "file": "debates1925-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4b51428b22dbd801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Captain F. E. GUEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not go over to the other side'? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain F. E. GUEST", "preceding_text": "wide that anyone who represents more than himself or his own vote, however small that representation may be, is bound to express the opinions which he and his friends hold. In this connection I wish to express as briefly as possible a Liberal view. It may not be the same Liberal view as that which was expressed this afternoon by the right hon. Gentle man the Member for West Swansea (Mr. Runciman).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-30", "file": "debates1925-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4b51428b22dbd801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Captain F. E. GUEST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All of them? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain F. E. GUEST", "preceding_text": "of this magnitude and importance in continuance of the efforts that the State, within seven years of the most homeric struggle the world has ever had to bear, is making to succour the most deserving of the great mass of our population. I will keep the Committee hardly a minute in criticism of the Budget, but I wish to say a word or two on behalf of the Liberals whom I have the honour to represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-30", "file": "debates1925-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4b51428b22dbd801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.412.5", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No l\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": " Committee will be good enough to appreciate when I mention it. I cannot help feeling that in regard to that direct taxation which now represents so large a proportion of our revenue, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has manifested very great ingenuity. What is the broad outline of the Budget in that respect? The Chancellor of the Exchequer is going to relieve income at the expense of capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.412.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-30", "file": "debates1925-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4b51428b22dbd801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Until she Marries!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "o what the Chancellor of the Exchequer said, the woman who is a widow, even if she has no children, will, if she has paid for a couple of years, he able to draw a widow's pension. It is possible, there fore, for a woman to marry and to be a widow at 21 or 22 arid then, according to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's scheme, she will be able to draw a pension of 10s. a week for the rest of her life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-30", "file": "debates1925-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4b51428b22dbd801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's farmyard knowledge is much more extensive than mine, but I was talking of the political hens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-30", "file": "debates1925-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4b51428b22dbd801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Workhouses! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ctive and generous scheme of social pensions. We will give hon. Members a chance, not merely of making speeches about it, but of walking into the Lobby. If they defeat us on improving the foundations of the scheme, then we will set about improving the details, and they will have plenty of opportunity for improving the social condition of our people, of keeping widows away from the workshops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.444.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-30", "file": "debates1925-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4b51428b22dbd801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is 6s. 6d. a pound.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "e, unostentatious, thrifty-living person who would never spend a sixpence if he could save it? The thing appears to have happened because he came into a company where there were rich and costly brocades, and highly-dressed ladies, and his great imagination brought before him a picture, and he said: \"This material is called silk and it is bound to be a luxury.\" As a matter of fact, it is only wood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.449.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-30", "file": "debates1925-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4b51428b22dbd801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " inconvenient to me. This, however, is a very serious point—that this thing is to be taxed on account of its name. I put it to bon. Members opposite: Why should not the people, working girls and others, like this stuff which is most economical for reasons explained by an hon. Gentleman who is a practical man, and who addressed the House a short while ago. It has cheapness. It has prettiness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.450.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-30", "file": "debates1925-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4b51428b22dbd801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "g as a non contributory scheme so far as the workers are concerned within a capitalistic system. If Socialist Members of this House really mean to introduce a non contributory scheme, they must make up their minds to introduce Socialism. There has been reference to tea taxation. We were told that if the Tea Tax had not been reduced, it was quite possible for the prices to rise, as they have risen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-04-30", "file": "debates1925-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4b51428b22dbd801", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "o regularise their profits here, the. large tea merchants will invoice their own teas from abroad at a higher price, and then maintain that they make very little profit. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer has got such a disgust for people who develop the habit of qualifying themselves for unemployment insurance dishonestly, at least he should have a disgust for those who profiteer in the same way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-04-30a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agriculture.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " should work for three hours overtime at the day rate. Would you believe it, 0 you Tories, that in this day and generation the employers come forward and offer these terms to what is one of the key industries, to an industry on which this great Empire is built'? The engineering industry is an industry on which this great civilisation is built. Nothing can be carried out to-day without engineering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.484.4", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "An HON. Member \"What is wrong with that? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": " a week, and there are exemptions where there are exceptional circumstances, where it is not reasonably practicable, where hours of agreement have been arranged with the employers, if the hours do not exceed 48 hours a week, where the work is urgent through accident, and so on. Part of the Bill and the whole of the Bill may be suspended in the case of national safety being endangered owing to war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.484.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILFRID SUGDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILFRID SUGDEN", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment. As a very democratic Conservative, I desire to place on record my regret that it has been found necessary for hon. Gentlemen, who have taken a very active part in the industrial life of their own country, to put motives into the minds of those of us who consider that we represent the well-being of the working classes of this country equally as efficiently as they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILFRID SUGDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILFRID SUGDEN", "preceding_text": "carry the responsibility of civilisation which it is destined to do, and which it is capable of doing. In these matters we, as the Conservative Party, give place to no section of the community in respect to our ideals. If we were permitted to utilise the scientific acumen—and here I agree with hon. Friends who have spoken—it is a great and noble thing to be an engineer. I speak as one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "May I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not seven hours underground, but seven hours, with the winding time—seven hours 40 minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " hours' day, and it is the only industry in this country where an able-bodied man is not allowed to work as long as he likes. In any other industry the man with a free will can work as long as he likes, but the miner must not be more than seven hours underground, and, taking into account the time which it takes to go to his working place, that often means that he has 5: i to 6 hours' work per day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " and, taking into account the time which it takes to go to his working place, that often means that he has 5: i to 6 hours' work per day. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Not seven hours underground, but seven hours, with the winding time—seven hours 40 minutes.\"] That is practically the same thing. I am informed, by a man who knows, that his actual hours are six—his hours at the face. Is that right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the whisky trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " at his ease and contented. He is always wanting something he cannot get. As a Scottish town clerk said, \"A competence is about 50 per cent. more than you have got.\" I object to this Bill, largely because it seems, in the first place, unnecessary, and it is largely impinging upon a man's freedom. If we could get more liberty, it would be the best thing possible. There are far too many resrietions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" It is more usual.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "principes, renvoyant pour les détails à un règlement d'administration publique which is to say, that there are many laws which are confined to laying down principles, and for details you have to go to the administrative regulations. He goes on in another passage to 3.0 P.M. give the reasons why. I have got it here, and, if I may be allowed to do so I will translate it straight away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": " am saying, that the relative position of the Continental worker, as compared with ours now, is infinitely better from our point of view and from theirs than it was in 1913-14, that the difference in extra hours worked on the Continent is infinitely less now than it was before the War broke out. I assert definitely that the wages of the Continental worker are much higher to-day relatively to ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Italy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " MEMBER:\" What about trade union restrictions? \"I suppose that hon. Members are infinitely shocked with us for asking Parliament to keep its word. Denmark is introducing an Eight Hours Bill, and hopes shortly to ratify the Convention. In Spain, before the military dictatorship, a Bill was introduced into the House there, but wherever you get militarism, whether in Russia or in Spain, God help you!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh !\" and Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "In Esthonia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Japan ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ns at the present time. It is our failure to ratify that is responsible for these things. Then in Sweden the Government are taking steps to put their house in order. In Switzerland there is an 8-hour day, and a referendum of the people has lately decided to stick to it. America, as I said, has, as to 51½ per cent. of the industrial workers, a working week of 48 hours. What are we going to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-01", "file": "debates1925-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a02ab97ab53f10fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ernments will be kept. I ask only that that undertaking should be kept. I am not blind to the fact that this Convention will entail difficulties. I knew, when I was Minister, that I should have to face difficulties. Difficulties are there, after all, to be surmounted. If I may use a couple of words of French to my right hon. Friend, I would say to him: \" Courage, encore courage, toujours courage.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-01a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOLD STANDARD BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. — Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. — Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ld he not have the right of having bullion coined? Why can he only sell it for paper to the Bank, and why should this monopoly be placed solely in the hands of the Bank of England? I should have thought it was desirable to encourage people to use gold coinage and let it be brought in gradually. I take it the policy of the Government is, if and when they can, eventually to get back to gold coinage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOLD STANDARD BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. — Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"It breaks down when a crisis arises! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. — Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "printing press. As long as you have only a paper currency it is possible to get hold of the printing press and to inflate to any extent. I do not say that this Government, or a later Government, or any other Government, would do it in the immediate future, but there would' be that danger existing, and the only safe way of maintaining a gold standard is to get back to the circulation of gold coins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOLD STANDARD BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I am sure we need not add to our labours by embarking either upon a discussion whether this Government should declare its policy in regard to going back to a gold coinage or not, and still less embarking on a discussion of the unseen foundations which constitute the intrinsic value of gold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.827.2", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOLD STANDARD BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Federal Reserve? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Member. There is 1½ per cent. commission on 100,000,000 dollars for the first year, and half that sum,if the credit is not used, in the second year, making a total of £375,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.827.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "ber of the peace. I agree. Consequently, I suggest to the Minister that he should take this opportunity of making agitation and the disturbance of the peace in this connection an impossibility by giving this measure of security to the tenant. In this House I do not suppose there is a great number of Members who are livingin controlled houses. Personally, in Glasgow I do live in a controlled house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": " that in two and a half years the Government will be coming with a section in the Expiring Laws (Continuance) Bill dealing with this matter, and that if he would only take his advice, that would not need to occur for five years, then I say let us still make it 15. Why should he have to come in five years? Let us get a decent period. Turn the whole thing round about. Give the tenants control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.842.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.844.2", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "of the Rent Restrictions Act, I think my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough has got his case clearly before him that this Measure will require to be continued until 1930. But the hon. Member for Middlesbrough is not differentiating between different parts of the country. I cannot go into the Amendment which, by some process that I am unable to comprehend, was ruled out of order in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.844.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "me a reasonable time. He thinks five years is a reasonable time, but other hon. Members opposite do not think that is a reasonable time. The hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) says he cannot conceive that in five years it will be possible to give up control. I wonder whether the hon. Member for Lambeth, for instance, really thinks he can guarantee that in five years' time control can be ended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr.KIRKWO0D", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the Minister of Health? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.KIRKWO0D", "preceding_text": "Yes, why is it that Scotland is not represented on the Front Bench? Is this what we pay them for? Is this what the Secretary for Scotland is putting in a claim for a rise in his wages for—for not being present? Where is the Secretary for Scotland? Where is his Under-Secretary, the captain of the guard?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": " a Chancellor of the Exchequer. But what did the hon. Member for Poplar insinuate against us? He insinuated that we are bringing in an old age pension scheme, whereby the old people will have los. a week more in two years, and that this Bill was brought in to extend control for two and a half years, so that control could then be taken off and the landlords allowed to grab the 10s. old age pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Below the belt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to see that a Samson has arisen with a speech which one would say was heat without fire. We can take a knock on this side, but, apparently, the hon. Gentleman himself is susceptible to attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And death! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "preceding_text": " so called, which will have the effect of increasing rents and enticing the jerry builder again to the industry. If not, why not let control go on without fixing a period, and then we can deal with it when the time arrives, as you are dealing with the gold standard when the time arrives, as you say? The Ministry is wrongly named altogether. It is not a Ministry of Health, but a Ministry of Misery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "l be for rents to fall some way below the real value of the houses. If, in the intervening 15 or 20 years, when the municipalities of Great Britain have become the owners of a larger proportion of house property, there is an over—supply of houses, and rents are dropping steadily, I he municipalities will then come running along to the Minister of Health, who will not be my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "g house property, but because there are more houses than people wanting houses that property will be a bad debt and a burden on the community. All the municipalities, the municipality of Birmingham included, will be running to the Minister of Health to ask him to establish control, so that the landlords may not be starved to death because they cannot get a just price for their unoccupied property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.890.7", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "reat. possibility of dealing with the housing shortage in that connection, and I hope that, coupled with this Bill, the efforts that are now being made in connection with the erection of brick houses, and the fact that the difficulty in connection with the erection of other kinds of houses has been swept away by the report of Lord Bradbury's Committee— for the working people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.890.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PATRICK HASTINGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PATRICK HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "cipal Act applies grants to the tenant a valid lease of the dwelling—house for a term ending at some date after the twenty—fourth day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty—six, being a term of not less than two years the principal Act shall cease to apply. I think that is a fair summary of the Sub—section, and I think every hon. Member thoroughly understands what that means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "period when prices were far higher than they are today. It is a landlords' Bill because it continues for a further two years that process of decontrol which, by the time the Act expires, is going to provide the right hon. Gentleman with an argument for not continuing control any longer. It is true that legislation must be passed now, and, therefore, we du not intend to divide on the Third Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-05", "file": "debates1925-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6a1f7f963b4fc9f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS CONTINUATION)BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " du not intend to divide on the Third Reading. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! \"] I see no reason for the cheers of hon. Members on the other side. We would rather have this measure of control than none. We must, therefore, refrain from voting against the Third Reading of the Bill, but in doing so I wish to protest, on behalf of my hon. Friends, at what is a miserable, mean, and shabby Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-05a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORMAN THORNE (LETTERS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\" !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "The point I want to make —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORMAN THORNE (LETTERS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "The point I want to make —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\" !]. Surely the prisoner ought to have been notified that the letters would not, in fact, be sent, and should be amended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.974.3", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed\" !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "the House so wish, I shall be agreeable to allowing a general Debate on these so-called McKenna Duties on the first Amendment, with an opportunity, of course, for Divisions on the three sub sequent groups of articles, reserving at the same time the further Amendment in the name of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Span Valley (Sir J. Simon). May I take it that that is agreeable to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.974.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.999.2", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "xes were reduced, and that the indirect taxpayer had benefited tremendously; therefore the proposal in this Budget is to redress the balance and to reduce Income Tax and Super-tax. Of course, the Super-tax payer and the Income Tax payer is an indirect taxpayer as a consumer of tea. It would be a very bad thing if successive Governments tried to weight taxes in favour of one class of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.999.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "preceding_text": " the industrial worker should not receive any relief. Alternative methods of taxation have been suggested. There are luxuries which could be taxed, such as diamonds and furs, so as to give relief to the industrial worker. It is wishing against hope, no doubt, and but for that fact I would say that I trust that the Chancellor of Exchequer may even yet see his way to give some relief to the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "s budget. What is that margin? Take an engineer earning 47s. a week. First of all, he must have a house to live in. Often he has to pay an excessive price for it. He must have food for himself, his wife and his children; he must have clothes, he must pay his club subscription if he belongs to a friendly society and he must pay his insurance contributions. He must have some margin for the pictures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ax on sugar, and now there will be the new insurance stamps. His daughters have to pay a tax on such harmless and cheap luxuries or adornments as they care to purchase in the nature of artificial silk. When these sums are added together it will be found that the tax on such a man is more like 10s. or 12s. Income Tax than the sort of light tax which hon. Gentlemen opposite would represent it to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What for? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "e House of Commons recognises that, so that it can be referred to in future if similar circumstances arise. I do not know whether my hon. Friends are prepared to go to a Division or not. I do not know what may be the effect of the present discussion. It is a matter difficult to decide upon the spur of the moment. However, if we may assume that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has apologised —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made an abject and humble apology to the House for the form in which this Resolution in Committee of Ways and Means has been put forward, and that he is prepared to make all the amendment within his power to see that the mistake is rectified in the Finance Bill. It seems to me that under those circumstances, perhaps, it may not be necessary to go to a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Lead thou me on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " contrary, he has always regarded it as a very dark and dangerous experiment. I cannot help thinking that when he contemplates the new object of his worship, and the star to which he pins his faith, he must sometimes be tempted to murmur the words of the hymn:— I was not ever thus; nor prayed that Thou, Shouldst lead me on. I loved to choose and see my path, but now, Remember not past years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1031.3", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"August! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "1st July, half-way through the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1031.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "lied then, so that his remark is really irrelevant to the point. The right hon. Gentleman, last December, speaking of the removal of these duties, said that It was a wanton act to deprive the State of that revenue… Here were duties which nobody objected to. Here were taxes on luxuries, here were taxes paid by the well-to-do.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th December, 1924; col. 1158, Vol. 179.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1042.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"During the War? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BANKS", "preceding_text": "600 hands, affords, I submit with respect, a very clear illustration of the principles to which I have been alluding. The Garraud Engineering Works make a little clockwork mechanism, commonly known as the motor of a gramophone. I have been informed by the manager of those works that it was the introduction of the McKenna Duties which encouraged this firm to commence this class of trade in Swindon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "es the conditions laid down, and as long as he is prepared to work he has a right to employment. That is the only indication of any want of freedom in this country at the present time. To come to the real point, it is contended by advocates of nationalisation that it would be in the interests of every man in the country if the nation acquired all the means of production, distribution and exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "t would be in the interests of every man in the country if the nation acquired all the means of production, distribution and exchange. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! \"] My Friends say, \"Hear, hear !\" That would be the first step in the downfall of any Empire in the world. Look at what it would mean. In the first place, if you nationalise the means of production you will have to nationalise the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Treasury?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": " holding worked out at £210 per shareholder. It is not the \"bloated capitalists\" who are finding the money to run the banks but the small investors, who put their money into the banks feeling that they have some security and that their money is in the hands of safe people, who know the details of finance. How could Government officials deal with complicated and intricate questions of finance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "s country lost several hundred thousand pounds invested in Russian enterprises. The whole system of finance was ruined. A few of the leaders of the Soviet Council did certainly secure all the money. We never knew what became of it, but we know that when they took possession of the affairs of Russia there was stored in that country enough food to feed that enormous population for four or five years", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1065.0", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": ", they would either have had to close down or find some more economical method of working. The shareholders would not have permitted them to go on. There is another outstanding instance, and that is the Metropolitan Water Board. I remember, when those water companies were taken over by the Metropolitan Water Board, in the days when the Labour party were controlling the London County Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr.H.WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.H.WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Motion. 9.0. P.m. If I may say so, the hon. and gallant Member for Basingstoke (Sir A. Holbrook) is in himself an outstanding example of the merits of individualism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr.H.WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not even a Member for Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.H.WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "phy of Government. There are two great principles which have been struggling in this world ever since man kind came into it—principles of order on the one hand, and liberty on the other. Now there is the doctrine of anarchy, which makes a great appeal to everyone, for everyone to do as he likes—no Government, no policemen, no laws, no House of Commons, even no Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr.WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Co-partnership.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Some of those of whom I am speaking have the most divergent views. There are those who react from the tyranny of State Socialism and advocate Syndicalism. They want a system of society in which there are no heads, and in which property and the management of the whole of the industries is vested in those engaged in them. That, however, is a reaction which is to-day a little out of fashion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr.WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ism and State Socialism; but even that seems to have gone a little out of date, and has no supporters now. But note the extraordinary position in which we find ourselves. We are facing the problem of those who denounce the existing system in favour of the socialisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and have not this faintest idea of what they are going to put in its place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr.WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear,hear ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "osition in which we find ourselves. We are facing the problem of those who denounce the existing system in favour of the socialisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and have not this faintest idea of what they are going to put in its place. [ Interruption. ] It is sometimes an advantage to confine one's speech and one's interruptions to the subject matter under discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr.WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh, oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "#8212;a British civil servant. I am not looking at the matter in that aspect. I am looking at the productive efficiency, if I may use the phrase, of those who work as civil servants. It is low through no fault of the individual, because when the self-same individuals retire at a fairly advanced age, many are men of outstanding ability who are at once snapped up for service in the commercial world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr.WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you been there? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "nt Departments, and large Civil Service staffs, and you must, therefore, accept the inefficiency which their employment in that direction results in because of the advantages you get in other directions. When, however, you get to the manufacturing departments of the State, take, say, the great arsenals, the men who work there do not work as well as some of the men do in the private establishments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1072.3", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ertainly proposes the cutting down of some incomes and the raising of others—whether it would result in that is a different matter—but if you are going to internationalise you have not only got to bring in your English workers but your countless millions of Chinamen and of Indians whose annual production and whose annual income is tiny compared with the income of the Britsh workingman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1072.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Diminished !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "have made to establish working-class freedom in their country. I am not going to follow the hon. and gallant Member in the line of argument that he has suggested. The hon. Member for Reading suggested the reason why State enterprise cannot succeed and that private enterprise will succeed is because, when the individual gets submerged in a big wide organisation his sense of responsibility has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " National Health Insurance and unemployed insurance, where because the approved societies are a comparatively small group, and the national unemployment insurance is nation-wide in its scope, the men in the national health insurance took a personal pride in the work, whereas the men in the unemployed insurance, as suggested by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, were mainly dole-robbers and swindlers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "gain and again. I think I am justified in giving to that suggestion the strongest definition I can. I may be wrong, I may be super-sensitive in these matters, but that was the suggestion that struck upon my ear. I hope the Chancellor will have an opportunity in this House of proving to me that the suggestion was not that the people on the unemployed register were in the main people who were frauds", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hitting below the belt! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "as the suggestion that struck upon my ear. I hope the Chancellor will have an opportunity in this House of proving to me that the suggestion was not that the people on the unemployed register were in the main people who were frauds [ Interruption. ] I merely state that that is the suggestion that drifts across to me from the Chancellor and not the suggestion of the hon. Member for Reading to-night", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was he a Scotsman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "so anxious for the economy of the community, and looked most rigidly after the materials at his disposal that when asked for a supply of chalk he would serve out to his staff of intelligent certificated teachers, most of them university undergraduates, one piece at a time, and if they went back before the end of the week for a second one he would want to know what had been done with the first one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or himself ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " can get high public service from a section of the community, you can get it from the whole. I am perfectly certain that the average member of the working classes would as soon work for his corporation, or his nation, or his county council, or his local education authority, as he would for a big profit-making concern such as J. and P. Coats, or Beardmore's, or some of these other big corporations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "e. I never cease, however, to be amazed at the perfection and efficiency of the whole Post Office service. In my whole lifetime I have never paid more than twopence for the conveyance of a letter inside the boundaries of this country, and I have never had a letter go astray. I have never had a telegram unduly delayed, and I have never had to wait more than three minutes for a telephone call—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1083.4", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "rvant—who went right through the whole gamut of State control during the War, and the great honour was conferred upon him of asking him to write this book. It is considered a standard work. Some of the experiments that we have made in the West Riding of Yorkshire during State control show us that what can be done successfully during a war ought to be done during peace much more successfully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1083.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "I am trying to prove that all these things were done by the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who did? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "te to function as a result of their experience and knowledge. I want to combat the argument that the Socialists would have civil servants who did not understand industry directing these industries. We should try to get people who understand the industries to direct them. That is the Socialist point of view. We bought during the War millions of bales of wool, and we made millions of yards of cloth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Private firms.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "Socialists would have civil servants who did not understand industry directing these industries. We should try to get people who understand the industries to direct them. That is the Socialist point of view. We bought during the War millions of bales of wool, and we made millions of yards of cloth. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who did? \"] We did. The Nation, the State, under State control, and State direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Put a tax on talk ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "he result of private enterprise, with its 1,250,000 unemployed. with no hope of providing work for the unemployed, has utterly failed. There is nothing to offer to the unemployed under private enterprise, except the hope that some day we shall get the trade of the world again, and now a proposal is made under private enterprise to put a tax on a new industry, so that we shall have more unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "ises that are entered into by the shipowners of this country and other countries. That is only one State effort in trading. I could mention many failures of State trading which we have not heard mentioned by speakers on this side. We need not go further than some of our tramway enterprises, of which the results have been really most serious to the ratepayers of many municipalities in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "is country and other countries. That is only one State effort in trading. I could mention many failures of State trading which we have not heard mentioned by speakers on this side. We need not go further than some of our tramway enterprises, of which the results have been really most serious to the ratepayers of many municipalities in this country. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where? \"] London, for instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Glasgow? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "te trading which we have not heard mentioned by speakers on this side. We need not go further than some of our tramway enterprises, of which the results have been really most serious to the ratepayers of many municipalities in this country. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where? \"] London, for instance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true.\"] I may be wrong about London, but I do know of other places in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-06", "file": "debates1925-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "f7caa418052d80aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "STATE TRADING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "s produced entirely by private enterprise. He went on to compare —and I think this is misleading when we discuss this question of State trading and national interference with private enter prise—the war conditions with the peace conditions. He said that vast numbers were clothed comfortably and effectively during the War, and why did we not do the same thing in other branches of trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-06a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "The Minister has made a personal accusation against me, without telling the House why I did not give him assistance. The reason why I did not give him assistance was because I took it that what I said was confirmed by a medical officer in the Ministry of Pensions. I asked for a letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "ts in 1893. With our Free Trade system, without the assistance. Of duties such as this our export trade is not going up except by means of Empire trade., We have a case where the home trade is comparatively small, the lace trade of Nottingham, where the fact that three-quarters of the trade is foreign trade, and there we find that a Committee has reported in favour of a duty of 33⅓ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame \"!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "preceding_text": ", but I do hope he will give serious consideration to the suggestion that this tax should be extended to commercial vehicles. After all, personally, as one who is interested in the transport trade of this country, I see no reason why commercial vehicles should be excluded from this duty, if you are going to tax motor cars at all. I must say, that as a user of an American car for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "preceding_text": "cts we get from the United States to-day, and, in my modest judgment, that is all the more reason why he should be protected. It is obvious that unless you manufacture on a large scale, as in the United States of America, unless you instal mass production plant which enables you to turn out motor cars at the rate of thousands a day, it is impossible to compete with those conditions of manufacture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": "ers and political policies. It seems to me the right hon. Gentleman felt that if he wanted to maintain his position in that party and upon the Treasury Bench, he must introduce something in the nature of protective duties or the reimposition of duties, as an acknowledgment for the time being at any rate—I will say no more—of his loyalty to the Tory party. I am satisfied in my own mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In cotton? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " voting in any way against it. I am a Protectionist, and frankly so. I was a Free Trader, and I said I should be a Free Trader until it could be proved to me that there would be more dislocation of employment by continuing the policy of Free Trade than by establishing the policy of Protection, and it was because I felt that change in my views that I became a Protectionist instead of a Free Trader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "has been successful during the last five years. I would ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer not to take the slightest notice of all these protests from those who are simply doctrinaire Free Traders, and I ask him—and I think it is a reasonable request—to do what the four Chancellors of the Exchequer who have preceded him have refused to do, and that is to say why motor-car tyres—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is the hon. and gallant Member aware that the Morris works are not in the Oxford constituency at all? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "What I said was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1222.3", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "now of the multiplication table? We are not opposing these duties on doctrinaire grounds. We are opposing them because they are the first step in an evil direction, and because once you allow these duties you cannot resist other demands. When these demands come, they mostly fall upon the commodities of the poor. The taxes of the right hon. Gentleman mean making the rich richer and the poor poorer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1224.2", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "an quite understand the arrangement, because the Liberal party have deserted the whole question of the Church of Scotland entirely, and particularly the hon. Member for Motherwell (Mr. Barr), who in particular has very great knowledge of this question. Certainly in my judgment there ought to be an extension of time beyond a quarter-past eight o'clock. Scotland is not receiving its due recognition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "es of this kind for revenue purposes, what is the position of Lord Oxford and all his Liberal colleagues, who, returned as they bad been upon an absolutely Free Trade basis, in the most strict and vehemently controversial aspect of the Free Trade issue before the War, thought it right to introduce these very duties without going back to their constituencies, without paying the slightest attention?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1233.0", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ibly arise by the imposition of these duties. The right hon. Gentleman wants to know why there is so much fuss about this question, and he was very severe in his references to the motives which prompted me in repealing these duties 12 months ago. I am afraid the Chancellor of the Exchequer is quite incapable of understanding that any person can be moved or prompted by honest political convictions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "happen to have a majority in this House. The Government have no mandate for the re-imposition of these duties. The majority of the electors in this country, notwithstanding Red letter scares, not- withstanding the fact that many hon. Members opposite have been returned to this House by the votes, as I have said before, of hundreds of thousands of old women who were dragged out of theirhomes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "Chancellor made the astounding statement that the repeal of those duties last year had had the effect of lessening what otherwise would have been the volume of employment in the motor trade. How does he know? He can think anything, and some people can say anything. Fortunately it is beyond the capacity even of the financial genius of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer to put a tax on thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1301.5", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Rubbish !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "On Income. Tax alone. And then I said that if you take the class over £5, 000 a year, the super Super-tax payers, they will obtain on an average out of this Budget £300 from the reduction of Income Tax and another 8200 a year from the reduction of Supertax, making £500 a year all told.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1301.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1302.0", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Among how many companies were these profits distributed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " in spite of the heavy reduction, it is still about the 1913 figure. £356, 800. Take another of the big South Wales companies. In 1914 £215, 300, and in 1921 £578, 000. That is a company operating in the midst of the South Wales coalfield, where we are told it is the worker's wages and the ca'canny of the workers that has brought about the depression in the South Wales mining trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "No, I will not!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-07", "file": "debates1925-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "157c4ed07fc1ef27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Bow and Bromley!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "in at the rate of 4s. 6d. So we, in the step which we have taken, in balancing, in giving a counterpart of his Budget of last year, are really only following out the policy which he recommended and foreshadowed last year. There are other important issues. but I find it the less necessary to discuss them, because the speech of the Mover of the Amendment, and the speech of the hon. Member far Poplar", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-07a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-08", "file": "debates1925-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "956408b5c27c6970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-08a.1347.0", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Are all Conservatives in bed? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": " It seems to me that as it stands it might be open to abuse. Perhaps the certificate of a justice of the peace might be added to that of a medical officer. The sick voter is entitled to consideration, and I would suggest to my friends on this side of the House that they, especially, should sympathise with the sick voter, because anyone who is in bed is a Conservative. They have more time to think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-08a.1347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-08", "file": "debates1925-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "956408b5c27c6970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-08a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "s. That period, I think, will certainly have to be reconsidered, because it is a period which does not cover any-. thing in particular. The Clause generally includes practically everyone. Many Members in their speeches have referred to classes of the community who. they did not think were included in the Bill, but in my judgment Paragraph (v) does actually take in nearly everyone, even bookmakers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-08a.1369.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-08", "file": "debates1925-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "956408b5c27c6970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-08a.1386.0", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "tituency only polled about 50 per cent., and that they never polled much more than 60 per cent. I am rather surprised at that, and I cannot understand it, with such an able candidate, and I have no doubt with an able candidate on the other side. When I was a candidate for Manchester, I remember that at one time we polled 95 per cent. That was at a time when we polled our dead men early in the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-08a.1386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-11", "file": "debates1925-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "db9af1f66d730ea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1452.5", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUDGET PROPOSALS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "May I protest once more in this House at being asked now to give details of this case, because the Noble Lord's Department. has had it three times, and when we put a question down we arc fobbed off in every other Department, and the Minister comes and asks us to give the details? When is this nonsense going to stop? He has the details and we cannot get a word out of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1452.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-11", "file": "debates1925-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "db9af1f66d730ea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1452.7", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUDGET PROPOSALS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "May I point out that I have already done so on another day in another question?? Four separate times has this been here in different forms, and I have gone there privately and shown the lawyer's letters with the girl's name, and the birth certificate, and yet I am asked to submit the case again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1452.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-11", "file": "debates1925-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "db9af1f66d730ea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1490.0", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": " Leek Manufacturers' and Dyers' Association sent a telegram to the Leader of the Opposition a week ago, which the Leader of the Opposition read to this House. On the following day it was my pleasure to attend, by invitation, at a meeting of the Silk Association, membership of which includes Leek representatives. They had the scheme explained by people who are well able to explain it to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-11", "file": "debates1925-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "db9af1f66d730ea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1512.0", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On and off !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "derstood that minor points of detail are left open, arid that if these points or other points reveal at any stage a fatal defect, everybody will be free, including the Government, to revise their position. I should like, however, to utter as a general warning a corrective to this extremely reasonable note which I have thought it right to strike. I have sat in this House for a quarter of a century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-11", "file": "debates1925-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "db9af1f66d730ea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1518.1", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "e worgers handling both pure and artificial silk. It is, therefore, not possible to distinguish a pure silk section from the industry as a whole, and we have regarded the expression silk industry ' in our terms of reference as including artificial silk. The House, during these discussions, will have to make up its mind either to tax both artificial and real silk, or to abandon the duty altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-11", "file": "debates1925-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "db9af1f66d730ea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1530.2", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Woollen! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ar import duty upon raw cotton. Let him put an export duty on cotton goods. There is no difference whatever, in spite of the ridiculous interpretation that the right hon. Gentleman has put upon the article which be has read to the House. The right hon. Gentleman himself, in his Budget speech, gave us a definition of luxuries as a, thing that people need not have. Well, people must, have stockings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-11", "file": "debates1925-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "db9af1f66d730ea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": ". Free Trade question in general, which seems to be very much missed in Debates on this subject. I refer not merely to the question of the profit and loss account of Free Trade, IAA to the international effect of a breach of Free Trade—to the effect as it is seen in the worsening of our relations with foreign countries. It is clear already from the protests which have come from France—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1562.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-11", "file": "debates1925-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "db9af1f66d730ea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1574.2", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "of the necessity of balancing his Budget, and he has proceeded by a nice process of adjustment to play off one set of taxpayers as against another. These proposals come from a man who has deliberately thrown away over £7,000,000 of Super-tax and given it back to those who never even expected it. He has done this in a time of unprecedented bad trade and when unemployment is swelling in volume.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-11", "file": "debates1925-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "db9af1f66d730ea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1576.0", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "on this commodity, because there must have been what amounts to overcharging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-11a.1576.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-05-12", "file": "debates1925-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5f05281666547a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1651.4", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Not three years ago!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GEE", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that a similar answer to this question was given three years ago? Is it not also a fact that three years ago an extension of the age was refused by the War Office? Is it not a fact indeed that for political purposes the party of hon. Gentlemen opposite refused to accede to this pension scheme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1651.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-05-12", "file": "debates1925-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5f05281666547a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1655.2", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "For the sake of reassuring public opinion, would the right hon. Gentleman make public the circumstances?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-12", "file": "debates1925-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5f05281666547a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1702.0", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHURCH OF SCOTLAND (PROPERTY AND ENDOWMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD:", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"It was stolen!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD:", "preceding_text": "is a very simple matter. It seeks simply to regularise the property of the Church of Scotland. The State gives its sanction to any property, whether that of a private individual, a voluntary association, or the Established Church, and the only difference between the property of the Established Church of Scotland, and any other property is this, that the one property is more ancient than the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-12", "file": "debates1925-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5f05281666547a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1704.0", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHURCH OF SCOTLAND (PROPERTY AND ENDOWMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has this to do with the Bill? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "d. Some indeed claim a preferable right in virtue of laws made by themselves or by those 'from whom they inherit or derive their possessions. These laws confer a legal right, and that right should he allowed so long as it rests on the law of the land, but these laws in most cases were made without the concurrence of the other inhabitants who as God's creatures were the rightful owners of the soil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-12", "file": "debates1925-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5f05281666547a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHURCH OF SCOTLAND (PROPERTY AND ENDOWMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" In the last Parliament? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "roperty which it so holds in trust, that the present Bill has been promoted. The hon. Member for South Midlothian referred to a plebiscite of Scotland. I differ entirely from him as to what the result of such a plebiscite would be. We have had a plebiscite on several occasions of the Scottish representation in this House, and we know where the majority is—and a very substantial majority too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-12", "file": "debates1925-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5f05281666547a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHURCH OF SCOTLAND (PROPERTY AND ENDOWMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ch we are told—although there is no evidence in support of it anywhere—is the necessary consequences of the passing of this Bill—there is no reason why the Church should not be able to get on very well. I do not know about it. I have examined the columns of the \"Missionary Record,\" the official organ of the United Free Church of Scotland, to which I am a regular subscriber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-12", "file": "debates1925-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5f05281666547a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIXTH SCHEDULE. — (Provisions relating to the Valuation of Teinds and the Surrender of Valued Teinds)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Had there been no Election I\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": " I wish to deal with another remark which has been made to the effect that the Church of Scotland waited until a Conservative Government came into power in order to get this Bill. That is absolutely untrue. We have been working at this Bill for at least 16 years. We have been trying to get it through, and the party to which I belong would have brought in the Bill if they had been in office longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-12", "file": "debates1925-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5f05281666547a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIXTH SCHEDULE. — (Provisions relating to the Valuation of Teinds and the Surrender of Valued Teinds)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BROWN", "preceding_text": "untrue. We have been working at this Bill for at least 16 years. We have been trying to get it through, and the party to which I belong would have brought in the Bill if they had been in office longer. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Had there been no Election I\"] Had there. been no Election, I may remind some hon. Members, including the hon. Member for Paisley (Mr. R. Mitchell) that they would not have been here", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-05-12", "file": "debates1925-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "5f05281666547a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1770.2", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIXTH SCHEDULE. — (Provisions relating to the Valuation of Teinds and the Surrender of Valued Teinds)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide, divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.MAXTON", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-12a.1770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-13", "file": "debates1925-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "321b3605bc073ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer. !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Why cannot the House be allowed to judge, by seeing this oakum, whether it is a reasonable task to which to put these ex-service men?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-13", "file": "debates1925-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "321b3605bc073ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1888.1", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "m rates. But here is the relief for which the Leader of the Opposition asks, so that possibly I may claim the support of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer in carrying out the policy which his Leader has propounded. If you are going to take a burden off the shoulders of one section of the ratepayers, and that. burden has got to be lifted on to the shoulders of some other of the ratepayers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-13", "file": "debates1925-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "321b3605bc073ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1956.0", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN BAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\" Morality!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN BAKER", "preceding_text": "e workers are never to have a share that would give them a decent life This country has spent hundreds of millions of pounds in breeding a race of aristocrats. We have been conducting an experiment as to how far we could develop the human animal, and we believe that we have attained perfection in the people who dub themselves aristocrats. They have bearing, learning and manners and the rest of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-13", "file": "debates1925-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "321b3605bc073ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1960.0", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£400 a year, like we get! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "ates to-day that he has got to give something to labour and I say, further, that sensible and sane labour realises that if our industries are to go ahead at all prosperously, labour has to come forward and give something to capital. There is one other point I should like to speak about. Hon. Gentlemen opposite spoke about the minimum wage, but they did not say how it was to be defined in practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-13", "file": "debates1925-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "321b3605bc073ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1960.0", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "ween capital and labour, but also to equalise the conditions amongst labour itself. should appreciate it very strongly if we could have more evenness between the wages paid to the skilled engineer and the wages paid to the unskilled labour, say, of the Corporation of the City of Manchester. I shall vote on this Motion to-night according to the reply given by the Minister in winding up this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-13", "file": "debates1925-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "321b3605bc073ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1980.0", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Order ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "preceding_text": "agree the Resolution asks the Government to adopt, is one which at least three Members of the present Government, in their collective responsibility as Members of the Cabinet at that time, decided was a proper way to deal with the question of the minimum wage. I hope the House will bear that fact in mind, that whether the Bill be good or bad, it is a Bill of which Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Churchill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-13", "file": "debates1925-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "321b3605bc073ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1984.0", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "liament should give an adequate reason for not. voting for this Resolution to-night. I gladly accept the challenge of the hon. and learned Member. The reason is very simple and the answer all-sufficient. The reason is that in 1918 a Coalition Government was returned, supported by Conservatives and Liberals. In 1919 a Bill was presented containing some of the proposals which are in *his Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-13a.1984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2032.9", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERSKINE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERSKINE", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether the paper in question was the \"daily liar?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2032.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2044.19", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "negotiate now with Russia on terms which would give us security for repayment and orders for our goods. The Chancellor of the Exchequer the other day alluding to conversations yet to be bold with trade representatives, expressed the hope that they would talk business and not politics when they met him. I think it is time that on this question of Russia we talked less of politics and more business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2044.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2078.1", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ers ought not to fall upon deaf ears. My last point is that of endeavouring to prove that this is a time when, least of all, the workers should be reproached or condemned for failing to do their duty, for they have made their sacrifices. Indeed, they represent the only class in this Kingdom who have been required in recent years to make any sacrifices at all in the interests of trade and industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2083.3", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " of those concerned in the proceedings—the very regrettable and unreasonable proceedings—which took place on the occasion referred to. Supposing a Minister or a Member of Parliament makes a statement with which another part of the House does not agree, or regards as uncharitable or even offensive, there is not the slightest justification for the organised shouting down of the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2083.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2083.3", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "f myself, but I have had to bear them in good part; and I should have thought that if anything that- I said was untrue, or palpably exaggerated, or unfair, what more could my oponents desire than that they should get that statement on record, when they could exhibit it, and show me as stultifying myself, and as having failed in good, taste and in fairness of mind? However, I leave that altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2083.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2083.3", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " because it is a matter in which my conduct was sustained by the Chair, and also by the opinion of the country. What was the statement I made? Let us see what it was. I have not the slightest intention of picking a quarrel, but the hon. Member opposite continually interrupted me the other night. I think he was one of the ring-leaders in what were very improper, unreasonable, and silly proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2083.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2083.3", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " say? Let me read from the \"Daily Herald\": It was in the interest of the trade unionists who arc long-established contributors to this fund as well as to the employers and industries themselves that they should make sure that there was not growing up a certain habit of learning to qualify for unemployment benefit. That does not in the slightest degree reflect upon the great mass of trade unionists", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2083.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2083.3", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ion upon the mass of the hardworking people who are, by the temporary trade dislocation, exposed to the miseries, sufferings, and anguish of unemployment; it was intended to draw attention to what I believe is the undoubted fact, that, as the system of unemployment benefit has been extended, individuals of other classes are beginning to take advantage of it in ways which were never foreseen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2083.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2107.3", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "copperplate. Really it is time the Government should say, \"These are permanent factors. Let us face them. We will ask the House of Commons to take certain lines.\" If I may refer again to a very instructive speech, I was very glad to hear from the hon. Gentleman the Member for Whitehaven (Mr. R. S. Hudson) that he was not afraid of facing something new. He said, \"Drain the land.\" That is a new idea", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2109.2", "colnum": "2109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MA1TLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"The Chancellor of the Exchequer ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MA1TLAND", "preceding_text": "ously along the same lines. I seem to remember the different kind of influence, which, clearly, is not in this Government now, judging from his own speech, but which was observable in the Coalition Government, and that was the element of great oscillation from one extreme quickly to another. There was the great oscillation towards nationalisation. Hon. Members opposite will remember that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2109.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2116.1", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2118.5", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I know quite well that they have been meeting, and I know quite well that they are only just getting to grips with the real, hard and solid facts. That is perfectly true. Our policy is not a negative policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2118.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2120.1", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "very kind of persuasion. There is a certain proportion, and quite a very small number, who really try to get something for nothing if they get the chance. That is also quite clear in everyone's mind. An hon. Member, I think, accused the Chancellor of the Exchequer of saying that the great bulk of working men getting benefit were in the category of malingerers. My right hon. Friend did not say that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2120.1", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "leared up. I said: \"At any rate, I will try to clean up this matter.\" I have got an investigation going. After all that has passed, I am going to try to clean this matter up now. Therefore, I am going to set up a Committee this autumn, or some time this year, in order to go right into the question of the conditions of grants, so as to see exactly what the effect is, and to get advice as to policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2125.2", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An anticipation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "r of us.\" Conservative employers of labour in my constituency went out on the Liberal platform and said, \"The reason why we want to beat this man is that, so long as he and his friends have any influence in the country, trade is bound to be bad, and if only we get a Conservative majority in the new House of Commons, that will bring about a better state of trade. That pledge has not been fulfilled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2130.1", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear. Trade union regulations! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "nce normal conditions are established, that consideration is of absolutely no account. The man who is going to sit at the Board of Trade during the next three or four years, and the man who is going to sit at the Ministry of Labour during the next three or four years, had better throw off all their old preconceptions and all the ideas they have inherited about our past methods of conducting trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2130.1", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "owed when he referred to the meetings of employers and employed surprised me. Tie said: \"Let them alone; they have to meet again.\" They have been meeting for 18 months, he admitted in response to the interruption of an hon. Member behind me, but he could not ask them, he said almost with pride, to face the facts. Ought he not to bring them to face the facts? That is the function of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2130.1", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not your Government do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ey will have to do. The conception of the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Labour of his duty is fundamentally wrong. Six months ago it would have been perfectly simple to get the two sides to have met together, with a statement of the public need, and then, when they were faced with the facts by the Minister, you would have had a very much shorter way to any agreement that they could come to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2130.1", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": ", but if anyone imagines that, for instance, the engineering trade or the coal trade has a clear sky right away to the horizon at the present time, I think he is very much deceived. When we came in, we found the difficulties matured, and we had to settle them when the clouds were dark, but we brought the parties together and settled the disputes time after time. We left the sky clear, more or less", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2141.4", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "Let me give the Committee one case. Before do that, however, I would like to call attention to a statement made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes). He said: Let the Minister of Labour advertise for five men to do work at Downing Street, and give them any kind of work to do, and he will get them\". Let me reply to that. My reply is that it is by no means a certainty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2141.6", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "No, he was not a watchmaker. He said to the second man, \"What will you take?\" and the man said, \"I am a skilled mechanic, and I cannot take less than £5 a week.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2141.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2141.6", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give us the names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "No, he was not a watchmaker. He said to the second man, \"What will you take?\" and the man said, \"I am a skilled mechanic, and I cannot take less than £5 a week.\" [Interruption.] These, are facts. It is no use laughing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2141.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2141.6", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "No, he was not a watchmaker. He said to the second man, \"What will you take?\" and the man said, \"I am a skilled mechanic, and I cannot take less than £5 a week.\" [Interruption.] These, are facts. It is no use laughing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give us the names.\"] The third man said, \"I want £3 15s., and my union will not let me take less.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2141.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2141.8", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "g?\" The son said, \"I am out of work. I have given up the place I had. I did not like it.\" \"Oh,\" said my friend,\" that is unfortunate. You ought to be on the dole.\" \"Yes,\" he said, \"and so I am.\" \"Well.\" said my friend, \"what do you do with the money? Your father and mother do not want it. What do you do with it? \"Why,\" he answered, \"I have to pay for that motor bicycle. That is what I do with it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2141.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.0", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:Give us the names ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "It is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.1", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH - COOKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH - COOKE", "preceding_text": "I do not think 1 ought to do it here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.1", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH - COOKE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH - COOKE", "preceding_text": "I do not think 1 ought to do it here. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] In the first place, I do not know the name of the employer", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.1", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH - COOKE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH - COOKE", "preceding_text": "I do not think 1 ought to do it here. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] In the first place, I do not know the name of the employer [Interruption.] I told you that the story was told to me by a friend of mine who was ready to befriend the boy. I have given you chapter and verse", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.1", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH - COOKE", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH - COOKE", "preceding_text": "I do not think 1 ought to do it here. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] In the first place, I do not know the name of the employer [Interruption.] I told you that the story was told to me by a friend of mine who was ready to befriend the boy. I have given you chapter and verse [Laughter.] If you do not like that, I will tell you another one. A lady got into conversation with another woman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.3", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "nd you do not like it. She said, \"I have three boys on the dole, or, rather, I had three boys on the dole, but one has got a job. He has had to go a long way off, and he pays 25s. a week for his room. I do wish he had not left, because they were all three together, and we were having a very good time. Now I am afraid I cannot take my youngest boy to the seaside, as I was looking forward to doing.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.3", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Ah! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "d he pays 25s. a week for his room. I do wish he had not left, because they were all three together, and we were having a very good time. Now I am afraid I cannot take my youngest boy to the seaside, as I was looking forward to doing.\" [Laughter.] If you are not satisfied with that, I will refer to another emigration story, Two boys went to Canada. Those two boys were porters on a railway station.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.3", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "ting somewhere near the heart of the right hon. Gentleman opposite. They were two porters on a railway station. Why have they gone to Canada? Not for quite the same reason as the two men the hon. Member told us about who went to Australia, not because they were out of work, for they had plenty of work to do, but they said they could not stay in a country which put up with such a thing as the dole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2144.3", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fairy stories I \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "And numbered I hope—bakehouse stories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2170.1", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALF0UR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote with us \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALF0UR", "preceding_text": "—the companies made in many cases very great, sacrifices in order to meet the views of the County Council and to co-operate with the County Council in finding a real and satisfactory solution of this problem. That is what I understand and I am associated, as many hon. Members know, with one of the two largest electrical companies in London. I am perfectly content to see this Bill thrown out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2191.0", "colnum": "2191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At the cost of the rates! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "whole country. Our electricity concern pays a minimum rate of wages for skilled people of £4 5s. per week. it gives &£4 a week to unskilled men. We work the best hours of any undertaking in the country. We give holidays, we give sick pay, and yet we manage, by organisation and a good deal of courage on the part of those who manage the concern, to give the cheapest product in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2191.0", "colnum": "2191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the courage of the ratepayers? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "eople of £4 5s. per week. it gives &£4 a week to unskilled men. We work the best hours of any undertaking in the country. We give holidays, we give sick pay, and yet we manage, by organisation and a good deal of courage on the part of those who manage the concern, to give the cheapest product in the country. [An HON. MEMBER: \"At the cost of the rates! \"] No, not at the cost of the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2192.3", "colnum": "2192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "argument which we always put forward. If the hon. Gentleman will only speak for another minute or two he will make my whole case. We have always said that the municipalities and the State can buy brains as well as corporations and companies and all the various concerns that co buy them. For exactly the same reason that Birmingham manages its municipal concerns, Poplar manages is municipal concerns", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-14", "file": "debates1925-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "29964b43cae9b998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2192.3", "colnum": "2192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "regard to these Bills it is an iniquity on the part of the London County Council, dominated by your friends, to allow without protest this business to be handed over in the fashion in which it has been handed over. The people down at Poplar, and the poor people in all the other districts, will never get the advantage of electricity from a company. I could not get gas when I started my married life", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-14a.2192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2218.0", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "I beg to move to leave out the word \"now,\" and at the end of the Question to add the words \"upon this day six months.\" The arguments which have been advanced in support of this Bill appear to me to be arguments which might be advanced with regard to discrepancies in prices in any other trade in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2218.0", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " hon. Friends opposite concur with that, because my contention in opposing this Bill, is that I personally—and I know that many hon. Members on this side share my belief— consider this to be a purely Socialistic Bill. It is aimed at establishing a line of conduct with regard to the building trades which hon. Gentleman opposite would desire to put into vogue against every other industry", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2219.1", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "e Seconder of the Motion, in what was a very excellent speech, which seemed merely to try to prove that there had been a big discrepancy in the prices charged for building materials between 1914 and the present day, in certain cases. May I suggest to him very forcibly that he never dwelt at all upon the fact that the major portion of the increased difference is the result of the demands of labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2219.1", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "lied by three in the period between 1914 and the present time. Hon. Gentlemen laugh, but I am stating that as a fact. I have the very best information upon which I can positively rely, and it convinces me—it may not convince hon. Members opposite, because they do not like to be convinced about unpleasant facts—that there were wages paid in the brickfields before the War of 17s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2219.1", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "oncern pays 15 per cent. dividend. How many of these brick companies which have been quoted were not paying a penny piece in dividends for 10 years before the War? Hon. Members do not assess them over a period of years. I know from my own knowledge that there were certain companies which could not give away their bricks before the War. There were companies which could hardly carry on at any price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2220.1", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "I understand the hon. Member is going to speak later and he will have his opportunity of saying that. These remarks are made about dividends as though it was entirely wrong for a capitalist to make a dividend at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2220.1", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "eaking on housing: I have to acknowledge that they met me in what I regard as a very generous manner, and I want to state here, particularly in regard to the brick manufacturers, that I have been driven to the conclusion during the past few weeks that in a period when the nation has problems of this kind. it would be much easier to deal with a ring than to deal with unfettered private enterprise.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2220.1", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "ered private enterprise.\" [ Interruption. ] — [OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd June, 1924; col. 1112, Vol. 174.] I always notice that when hon. Members on the other side are touched at all they squeak. The quotation goes on: It is just the same condition as employers of experience recognise in dealing with their workers; it is easier to deal with a Trade Union that deal with a body of disorganised men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2220.1", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "lth—one iota, although since that arrangement was made wages in that particular firm have gone up l7½ per cent. When you have engendered that spirit in private enterprise, when there is that desire to meet the proper demands of the State, it seems to be madness to bring forward a Bill which must cause tremendous uneasiness among those engaged in the manufacture of any of those articles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2224.1", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And where there are no profits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ls merchant you could find. The last part of the Bill is a temporary proposal for the nationalisation of production. I have been all my life, or very nearly all my life, a convinced opponent of Social- ism in any form, and by Socialism I mean State Trading—except in those particular productions in connection with which the maintenance of law and order may render State interference necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2224.1", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ion of production. I have been all my life, or very nearly all my life, a convinced opponent of Social- ism in any form, and by Socialism I mean State Trading—except in those particular productions in connection with which the maintenance of law and order may render State interference necessary. [HON. MEMBERS: \"And where there are no profits.\"] The making of war is a Socialistic undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2225.3", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And you do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e employer or producer of any particular commodity, and the moment you start interfering for the purpose of dealing with high prices, you very frequently produce conditions which lead to shortage make your prices higher than ever. I know that the much-abused law of supply and demand does not earn very much respect from the benches opposite, very largely, I think, because they do not understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2225.3", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Restricted output.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ly stated? If things are scarce, the price goes up, and if they are plentiful, they are cheap, but that is only one aspect of it. The other aspect is that, if prices happen to be high, labour and capital and ability are attracted to the production of those commodities, and, if you leave people alone, they will shortly increase supplies to such an extent that the high prices which prevailed vanish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2228.0", "colnum": "2228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 0\"And watching.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "ort that we find ourselves inadequately equipped to ascertain the facts in regard to the reasonableness of prices. I submit from the actual facts that have transpired since his message to the Committee in 1923, and the Committee's report in 1924, that he has a full case for coming to this House for additional powers to deal with the situation. The present position is that the Committee is sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2240.1", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They ought to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "int. Let me pick out the prices in order that the House may see that the statement I made that prices have not altered to any great extent since January, 1924, is correct, in one or two cases where they have been affected by those changes in the cost to which I have referred. Take for example Fletton bricks. An hon. Member opposite spoke about glazed bricks, but they are not used in housebuilding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2250.1", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "bricks from Fletton, buy them at the yard, and deliver them at the London station cheaper, or as cheaply, as they can be laid by bricklayers and labourers in the average house in London. You can get Fletton bricks to-day for 35s. per thousand in the yard. The price at King's Cross Station is 53s. 3d. I think that it takes about 50s. for a bricklayer and a bricklayer's labourer to lay those bricks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2253.0", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILFRID SUGDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Such as? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILFRID SUGDEN", "preceding_text": "ely in the hands of foreign manufacturers. No one, either building expert or any Ministry of Health, has ever given British public a knowledge of the extra amount we are paying by reason of the fact that we are compelled to buy certain essentials for houses from foreign countries because our own manufacturers have been compelled to go out of business on account of foreign illegitimate competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2262.0", "colnum": "2262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major TASKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is an honest day's work? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TASKER", "preceding_text": "costing more to-day is because you are paying more for labour. I am not complaining. For my part, I would gladly welcome the payment of half-a-crown an hour to every skilled operative in the building trade in London, and I am going to say this, that there is not a decent contractor in London who would not gladly pay his skilled operatives half-a-crown an hour if they would do an honest day's work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2263.1", "colnum": "2263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major TASKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TASKER", "preceding_text": "attack upon one of the oldest industries in the world, and it is fore-doomed to failure. People talk to-day mostly about the cost of bricks, but if hon. Members would think, they would see why bricks are costing more to-day than before the War. The clay is there, in mother earth — it costs nothing in its raw state—but you are paying the man who digs that clay twice the amount of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2265.0", "colnum": "2265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major TASKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TASKER", "preceding_text": "thing to do was to do without the Government grant, and so we went on and finished the building. That is the type of man that we shall be confronted with if this Bill goes through. I cannot but think that the good sense of this House will treat this Bill in the way it ought to be treated. I had intended to limit my observations to 10 minutes should I have the opportunity of speaking in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2272.0", "colnum": "2272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "enterprise, whatever its nature may be. To anyone who approaches this subject free from bias it seems to me obvious that there are some things which it is absolutely essential should be handled by private enterprise, and there are other things which lend themselves to be handled by the community with advantage. I oppose this Bill, not because it goes too far, but because it does not go far enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2272.0", "colnum": "2272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not do it !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "en explained to him yet that the building subsidy had not been put on in order to make the cost of building high. With all respect to the hon. Member for Mossley, the people who build houses are not those who wish to retain them. They either sell them or let them, and the object of the subsidy is plainly that they may be able to sell them at a lower price or let them at less than an economic rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2278.1", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ent factories are closed down to-day, at a time when we want cement more than we ever needed it before. As far as we are concerned, the principle of the Bill is one to which we can agree. It is one to which everyone should agree. I ask hon. Members opposite to amend it in Committee. They have the power to amend it. At any rate, they have the numbers, but I do not know whether they have the brains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2278.1", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "e of the situation when the fact is that fewer men are employed in the building trade and are producing more houses than were produced in the days before the War. Therefore if you want peace in industry do not start to tackle the working man, if you want to live up to the appeal of the Prime Minister. We are trying to do our best to get the workers to adopt a reasonable attitude wherever possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2288.1", "colnum": "2288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "That is the whole implication of the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2288.1", "colnum": "2288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was never stated! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "That is the whole implication of the argument. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw ! \"] If they are selfish, as it is implied trade unionists are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-05-15", "file": "debates1925-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "cae699a6ec4abfc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2288.1", "colnum": "2288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Both legs ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ve these things, and whether those supplying building materials are acting with public spirit or in their own economic interests? Is it suggested that the Trusts Committee, that the Royal Commission on Food Prices and other committees that have proved profiteering on a large scale were wrong in saying that it was. profiteering? Hon. Members opposite must say which leg they are going to stand upon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-05-15a.2288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.6.1", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "preceding_text": "I would urge hon. Members, if they wish independence granted to India, if they wish this Protectorate—.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.6.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.41.7", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW RELIEF, WEST HAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "May I ask if the hon. Gentleman thinks that 10s. a week for a man and his wife, and 5s. for each child, is too much for the guardians to give?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.41.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.81.3", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "May I ask if there were two speeches? In the first instance, the speech a fortnight ago, I gathered, was a speech in the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.81.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "I can only say I think industry would have been a great deal worse had those remissions not been made. At any rate that is not an argument I want to pursue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "o pursue with that object the Government are only anxious to meet their views, and so to arrange the course of the Debate as to enable all the points to be made effectively. In view of the work which we have to do we ought to aim at getting the Income Tax and the Super-tax and the earned income remission provisions before the dinner hour so as to enable us to deal with the Death Duties after that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "Certainly it could be worse. At one time we had 2,000,000 unemployed, and at present the figure is 1,200,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "-car is not finding employment? He is giving a large amount of employment in a community where a good deal of industry is depressed and there are a large number of unemployed. He is providing a certain amount of work for steel makers and for other depressed industries. Some hon. Members may think it is wicked to own a motor-car, but surely they cannot object to a man finding employment for people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": ". I want to get a clearer conception of what hon. Members on the Labour benches really think, because while pretty well all economists are agreed that a reduction of Income Tax will stimulate trade, they always look upon that as a delusion. But they never show us how it is a delusion. How can it be a delusion? If a heavy taxation depresses enterprise the relief of taxation must benefit enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "us as if it had remained within the ambit and the direct circle of industry. Even as regards the interest on War Loan, all this money must go back somewhere. Even taxes come back into industry sooner or later. The money which is taken away by taxes does not disappear into the blue, it comes back, only it comes back by a more remote and less direct channel into the trade and industry of the country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " Committee, we take the view that if we did not give the Government the taxation they could not build the ships. Those are some of the reasons that have actuated me and some of my friends in this matter. If we vote against the Clause to-day, technically we abolish the Income Tax altogether. I do not know if that is the object of my hon. Friends across the Gangway, but that is the technical effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "er hand he may not. Some people undoubtedly do. I am not going to say that if the Chancellor of the Exchequer had no other object upon which he could more appropriately and more usefully spend his £10,000,000, that it would not be fair to cut down the Super-tax. I think it would be. There is no doubt at ail that many of the men who receive huge, incomes do not spend the money upon themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "This proposition for reducing the Super-tax can only be considered in conjunction with the other proposal which has been put forward. So far as I am concerned, if one were rejected the other would fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "om the point of view of the individual taxpayers. They are incapable of regarding the economic situation as a whole. We on this side who are favouring the reduction of Super-tax are not favouring it in the interests of the individual taxpayer, but because, rightly or wrongly, we honestly believe that it will give a stimulus to industry as a whole. Of course, it is possible that we may be mistaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "le words, the highly creative faculties of the community. Secondly, he commended it to the Committee on the ground that it was, as he put it, in accord with modern conceptions. I am not quite sure what the Chancellor of the Exchequer meant by being \"in accord with modern conceptions.\" Did he mean the conceptions which are held on the other side of the House, the conceptions of the Socialist party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.184.4", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bright?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "dget for remission on incomes that are already swollen. Reference has already been made to the condition of the miners. I come from a district where unemployment during the past two or three years has been very great, due to the outrageous, the idiotic policy introduced and carried out by the Coalition Government, of which the present Chancellor of the Exchequer was a bright and honourable member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.184.4", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " and justify the remission of taxation to people who already, as has been stated, possess more than they know what to do with? I tell you frankly; I tell the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he would not again find a place in this House if he had to go to an industrial constituency and justify his policy. He can go down to Epping Forest. He can come back from Epping Forest as a babe from the wood!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.184.4", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ayr!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "olicy. He can go down to Epping Forest. He can come back from Epping Forest as a babe from the wood! [ Interruption. ] Well, we will cover you with leaves. I state again that if an election were taken in any industrial constituency on the issue Budget versus anti-Budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not find one supporter coming back from any industrial constituency to justify his Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.184.4", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A thousand drop in the poll!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ndustrial constituency on the issue Budget versus anti-Budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not find one supporter coming back from any industrial constituency to justify his Budget. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ayr!\"] Ayr showed there was a majority against the Budget. The Member who one day this week, I expect, will come to the Bar of this House, comes in on the minority vote of the electors of Ayr.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.184.4", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "nment dare not go back and contest industrial constituencies and make excuses as to why the work has not been found. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, with his varied past, jumping from one theory of politics to another, now comes to this House as a Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, realising his ambition to become a Chancellor of the Exchequer irrespective of what party he would be Chancellor for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ho do pay taxation. There has been a complete ignoring on the part of the Government of the miserable and despairing lot of scores of thousands of poor people, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Prime Minister, and those who sit behind them have tricked and deluded the workers of the country. They have not only thrown dust in their eyes, but they have also rubbed salt into their sores—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": " appeal to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to think better of these duties. I am certain that any appeal of that sort is now too late. The matter has received his fullest consideration, and in spite of the objection of many Members of his own party, as evinced by their cheering, to the proposals he is making and the necessity under which he is to force them into the Lobby against their will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "I do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "xchequer comes here and paints to us, as he is so able to paint, a picture of rich men saying to each other, \"Here is a relief of £500 which our benevolent Chancellor of the Exchequer has given to us. We will have a new machine in the workshop. We will employ another 20 men here or another 10 men there.\" I believe that is a fantastic picture. These people say, \"We will have a new town house.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Getting!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRIS", "preceding_text": " Super-tax were not only able to pay the Super-tax but were able to pay a great deal more than the Chancellor of the Exchequer anticipated. According to the same report, the number of Super-tax payers last year was 89,000, and their aggregate income was £519,000,000. That is an average income of somewhere about £5,000 or £6,000 a year. To these people, earning these huge sums—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-15", "file": "debates1925-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "8694f38aed3e2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you?\" and \"Who does?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "I wish to make a remark in reference to the first speech made from these benches, by the right hon. Member for Norwich (Mr. Hilton Young). I had not the opportunity of hearing it, but I understand that he has already said, what I ought to make plain, that he does not represent in any sense whatever the hon. and right hon. Gentlemen on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-15a.196.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Currency!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ttempt to deal in some detail with the position of the lace and embroidery trade in this country. One thing comes out very clearly. Anybody who has any knowledge of the textile trade is aware that the real reason of the depression in the lace trade is not foreign competition, though that has been a factor, but merely the change in fashion. Lace is now being very little used compared with formerly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "just like the description in that great novel by Ibancz of the first appearance of the German Army. You just see one solitary horse on the horizon, but behind it is the whole army. It is the same here. This is the little solitary horseman patrolling the road, but behind will be the whole legions of the right hon. Gentleman's army, desolating the country and leaving it to others to find reparation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "l has been placed on the Statute Book by the votes of hon. Members opposite who have betrayed their election pledges. From one point of view the action of the Government might be welcomed, because it shows that the Tory party to-day is the Tory party of the past. It is a party which has no scruples. It uses political power to serve the private and personal and selfish interests of its own friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.363.2", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major OWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major OWEN", "preceding_text": "I am taking the statement of the manufacturers themselves at Long Eaton and Sandiacre, and they assured me definitely. I appeared before the lace manufacturers themselves at Long Eaton, and that was my reply to them at the time—that in my opinion, in the best interests of the trade, they them- selves should look into it and try to make it more efficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.363.2", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major OWEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has the hon. Member ever asked the bleachers how much it cost them to bleach the lace?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major OWEN", "preceding_text": "d look into it and try to make it more efficient. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question!\"] I have answered the question. The great cost in the production of lace—I am taking the evidence of the manufacturers themselves, and they did not deny it at the time when I put the point to them— the great cost in the production of the lace was in the making of it. They had to buy the cotton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.363.2", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major OWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major OWEN", "preceding_text": "lace—I am taking the evidence of the manufacturers themselves, and they did not deny it at the time when I put the point to them— the great cost in the production of the lace was in the making of it. They had to buy the cotton— [An HON. MEMBER: \"Has the hon. Member ever asked the bleachers how much it cost them to bleach the lace?\"] The bleachers were represented at that meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.363.2", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major OWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are burking the issue!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major OWEN", "preceding_text": "aking of it. They had to buy the cotton— [An HON. MEMBER: \"Has the hon. Member ever asked the bleachers how much it cost them to bleach the lace?\"] The bleachers were represented at that meeting. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the cost?\"] The bleachers were represented at that meeting. I am very glad that some facts at last have penetrated even the intelligence of hon. Gentlemen on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A penny on the Income Tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "y be done in conjunction with a general survey of the finance of the year and in relation to the financial position. It is the financial position rather than the particular merits of the controversy which lead me to be unable to meet the wishes expressed by the Mover of the Motion. To reduce the duty as proposed would cost us £5,800,000 in a full year, and £4,000,000 in the present year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "that is unfair competition. They are also allowed, in many of the clubs and hotels, to bring a guest for a payment of 7s. 6d. or sometimes 10s., and the guest sees a variety entertainment no different from what he sees in the West End variety theatres. That is unfair competition with these variety houses. I do not suggest that you should tax the cabaret or the hotels or the broadcasting companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Sabbath!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": ",000,000, that amount would go directly into the pockets of 80 or 90 per cent. of the working classes of the country and this would help to create more employment. The unemployment question is a vital question at the present time. Next Sunday is going to be called Unemployment Sunday. This question is going to be discussed in practically every part of the country from Scotland down to South Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS", "preceding_text": "on has underground railways with trains every few minutes. Another hon. Member and I have done what we can to get the railway company to move, and the people of that district are tired of continual promises that something will be done. I have seen the general manager of the company, who informs me that plans are under consideration for widening at Romford Station. Whether that is so I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I am quite sure the hon. Gentleman, who has made a very closely reasoned speech and one in which he has endeavoured to economise his demand on the time of the Committee, does not expect that I will accede to his request.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.464.6", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "on by taxation, is class legislation, and is a very unfair tax to put upon these people. It was only intended as a War tax. Revenue is being lost by it, and I am certain if the tax were reduced sales would go up to such a degree that the loss of revenue would be replaced. I am sorry to say many people have taken to more noxious compounds, and I believe there is a good deal of illicit distillation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.464.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain MOREING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain MOREING", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Clause be read a Second time.\" This is a matter of vast importance to the mining industry of this country, and I hope the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be able to indicate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "That I hoped you would have done to-night. We have no sign of it from you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.473.5", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Clause be read a Second time.\" I ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer to give sympathetic attention to this Clause. I would point out that the small innkeepers in the small country districts have to pay licences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-16", "file": "debates1925-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ad5ebe334e67cd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.473.5", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": " \"That the Clause be read a Second time.\" I ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer to give sympathetic attention to this Clause. I would point out that the small innkeepers in the small country districts have to pay licences—[ Interruption. ] I would point out to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that many of these licence holders are small ex-Service men who have put their all into these houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-16a.473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.488.8", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order! Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister, I think, is due to say something. He has admitted that Capitalism is breaking up. Does the right hon. Gentleman not think it is time? Is he not going to say something. We have had Debate after Debate on the Adjournment Motions on this subject, but we have had absolutely nothing from the Secretary for Mines, and matters are going from bad to worse, and this is the best county.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.488.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ey say \"we will put our money into the development of our trade or business,\" here at any rate they are developing local industries, and they are promoting employment. It is in the interests of the particular community that capital should be used in that way, and it is especially the case in these little rural towns. If a man puts his money into land he is not doing any particular good to anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.551.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "r deductions on both accounts, but I am putting the case moderately. 5.0 P.M. Take the present case. The rent has gone up to £11,500. I am assuming an addition of 15 per cent. The Income Tax is 4s. I am assuming a Super-tax which is equal to what would be deducted, and I make a larger deduction for repairs. Why? As any landlord knows, the cost of repairs is now nearly twice as much as it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "rning to his place, because, curiously enough, the very first speech I had the opportunity of making in this House, a quarter of a century ago, was delivered in reply to him. During the whole of that period I have only once had the opportunity of following him in debate, and on that occasion a pressing engagement led him to leave the Chamber, so that I did not have the opportunity of his presence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, they are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "and as such. That ground has been covered, and no one has covered it more effectually, and in many cases more widely, than my right hon. Friend himself. Land is by no means the only subject of taxation which enjoys special treatment. There is no doubt whatever that the co-operative societies at the present time are not assessed for Income Tax on exactly the same basis as other classes of property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In order to preserve your balance!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " The very Order Paper yesterday was covered with new Clauses proposing all sorts of exceptions in particular cases. The hon. and gallant Member for Caithness (Sir A. Sinclair) had an Amendment on the Paper—\"Relief from increased Death Duties in certain cases\"—proposing that there should be relief for particular classes of taxpayers from the increase in the duties which we are imposing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the tenant?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "I do not envy the man who gets what is left from the table after dinner is over. I was dealing with the concessions made in regard to agricultural rates and the concessions that are always made to landowners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "at about the tenant?\"] We always hear about the tenant, because it is always the tenant who is put forward. When you introduced the Corn Production Bill it was for the benefit of the tenants, and what happened? No sooner was that Act passed than the landowners of this country went to the farmers and compelled them in many cases either to give up farms altogether or to buy them at increased values.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.596.3", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "f our people, that they should urge the Government to do something of real worth and value, and open up the resources of this country by removing the deadly hand of monopoly. If they do that, they will gain the eternal gratitude of the people of this country, and if they do not, well, what will be the consequences? I hope that what I am about to say will not be considered an irrelevant digression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.601.0", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": " be given to a class who, admittedly, are not going to use it for the purpose of increasing production, and should be denied to a class who, if they got it, would use it for production. Is there anybody who says, or who can support it if he does say it, that the landowner who gets this concession of a couple of thousand pounds is going to use it to enable the farmers on his estate to produce more?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.603.0", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "aper. The following morning the form of words which he could not give us at that early hour appeared on the Order Paper that was circulated to Members, which proves that there must have been either in his possession or in the possession of the Patronage Secretary, or of some Member of the Government the actual written form of the Amendment ready to be placed in the hands of the Clerk at the Table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " associate the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that I am opposing this now. The Chancellor of the Exchequr has become exceedingly friendly with all the interests which he previously denounced and to which, he led people outside the country to believe, he was hostile so far as politics and his interest in politics were concerned. Now he hands those people a concession, a paltry concession he calls it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are on the rocks!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I am certain that they cannot get their barque back to harbour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.639.0", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMB", "preceding_text": "I wish to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.639.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.641.4", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "preceding_text": "tunately again by the action of the Government, which poses as the friend of the landlord and of the agriculturist in general, with the duty of 33⅓ per cent. on phosphates which is foreshadowed, the farmer will be in a worse position than ever to contribute anything to agricultural shows. As a farmer said to me the other day, \"If that duty is put on it will cost me £20 a year increase.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.641.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "for Peebleshire (Mr. Westwood) hold the shows only once a year. Those agricultural societies hold those games. In Scotland they are designated the Highland games or the Highland shows. In Glasgow this year we have what is known as the Highland show, which is really an agricultural show. There the people come, particularly the country people who never see one another from one year's end to another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "s or the Highland shows. In Glasgow this year we have what is known as the Highland show, which is really an agricultural show. There the people come, particularly the country people who never see one another from one year's end to another. [ Laughter. ] A fool laughs at his own folly. Although you may be knights of the realm, that does not make any difference. I am stating in plain English—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I would not have digressed in any sense from the point under discussion had you been as strict with my opponents as you have been at the moment with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.655.2", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The duty is not in force yet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "trade, and most of them acquiesce. The hon. Member for West Leicester (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence) told us about the man putting a bar into the machine and the effects it might have; but since these duties have been announced, so far from there being any falling off in the employment or in the values of the silk trade and the branches of the silk trade, there has been an improvement in all their values.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.660.2", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hops!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": "I am glad the right hon. Gentleman has made that quite clear. I understood him in that sense, but it was not quite clear. What I should like to ask him is what would be the estimated reduction in the Customs Duty receivable if there were no tax on raw material, because a tax on raw material is a most questionable expedient. It is taxing the very grist that goes to the mill of British industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "ries which use that material. I was interested to read this morning that a meeting had been held between a representative of the Customs and Members of Parliament who are interested in the textile trade. I was also interested to find that not a single representative of the textile trade from these benches was present. I do not know whether the Chancellor thinks that we have no assistance to offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.663.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.669.0", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Name!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "preceding_text": "I am not compelled to give the name. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Macclesfield has probably a greater right than I have to say what happens in Macclesfield so far as these Silk Duties are concerned, but he has no right to say that nobody objects to them when I myself spoke to a man yesterday who did object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.668.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " but I would point this out to the Chancellor of the Exchequer: The only Committee, as we have seen from the White Paper, that has examined the claim of the silk trade for a duty has refused it. There was a Committee that sat in 1923, about which the hon. Member for Maccles-field (Mr. Remer) knows something—he has been singularly silent of late in contrast to what he had to say before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.670.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.671.5", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "I think the Committee will see. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I think the Committee ought to congratulate me on having got something from the hon. Gentleman. I trust he will not get into trouble with his lords and masters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.671.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor called this a luxury tax. That was his first line of defence. When the secret that had been so well kept was made public, and he learned what he was really doing, he abandoned the luxury-tax argument and compared this to the Sugar Duty, which is by no means a luxury tax. How does it work out? I do not know whether the hon. Lady—I was not so very attentive at that moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Then I will deal with it. There is a material which I am told is called ninon, and I am told it may cost 12s. a yard. I am told by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Then I will deal with it. There is a material which I am told is called ninon, and I am told it may cost 12s. a yard. I am told by—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] I shall take refuge in the same device as the hon. Member for Macclesfield. I am told that a yard of ninon weighs an ounce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.672.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": ", he may be multiplying his duty from one of 33⅓ per cent. on the silk content to one of 100 per cent. or more on the silk content. I have consulted merchants in the trade, and they tell me that this a real difficulty. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked for duties on many things, and before the end of this Parliament he will have asked for duties on many more. Of that, I am confident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.684.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "arks about motor-cars fall. The proposal is that an article being found to contain some silk is to be dutiable to the extent of one-third of the cost. The tax might be 10,000 or 20,000 per cent. the value of the silk, the duty being levied upon the total value of the article to which the silk is attached. If the motor-car of which I am speaking had lamps with electric wire insulated by silk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.717.4", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "If a lady goes to Paris and buys a dress but does not wear it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.717.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "he Chancellor challenged my accuracy as to a statement I was making. We are now on the second paragraph. Let me put a small point on this occasion. The Chancellor said that the effect of his changes was slightly to reduce the duty. Is that the case of an article the component parts of which are worth £5 and the value of the whole article is worth—I will put the actual value at £10?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "The question is a very simple one, but after all it is a very serious matter. It really ought to be faced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "I must say I consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-17", "file": "debates1925-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f6f3fde5895206dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "I cannot understand the very great enthusiasm exhibited. We can all appreciate the ability of the hon. and gallant Member who moved this Amendment and wants an explanation. The real explanation is the absence of his colleagues. It is a very extraordinary thing that although they have been claiming in the Press that they are the only pebbles on the beach their leaders are absent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-17a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TITHE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Double that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "f that as a great act of justice, and indeed, in the latter part of his speech, he rather reproved us for complaining of a further shifting of what he estimates as being a quarter of a million from the other shareholders on to the back of the public. That gift, I think, was £150,000 a year, if I remember aright. That, I think, was the cost to the taxpayer of the halving of the parson's tithe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING (INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONVENTIONS) BILL [Lords.].", "cue_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "preceding_text": "ll, vessels such as dredgers, mud-hoppers and various vessels of a harbour type, which have to go in a seaward direction, very often a mile or two, or a few miles only, just beyond the reach of the harbour area. The omission of these words \"or pilotage\" would bring these vessels into the scope of the Bill and the Convention, when it is not intended, under the arrangement made, that they should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS BOWATER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS BOWATER", "preceding_text": "Nor in China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "e now. We do not think that the whole of this question is an industrial question. I know it has its political aspect, but how is it that this position has arisen at all? How is it that foreign police have shot down Chinamen? How is it that there are no native Courts to deal with the trouble in the mills? How comes it that, at this moment, this most kindly and pacific of peoples, the Chinese—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.917.5", "colnum": "917", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Laughter, and an HON. MEMBER: \"Nor has China!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " undertaking to investigate the working of the extra-territorial system? I think that was a real advance. At any rate, it was a real guarantee that the foreign powers mainly concerned in China would not endeavour to exploit China for their individual interests, but would together seek to help China in her own development. I frankly admit that we have not gathered all the fruits which we had hoped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.917.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "dst of an agitation which threatens the lives of British subjects and of foreigners in China. We ourselves have immense interests in China, interests which are as important to China as they are to us. Trade—successful trade—is mutual. Our interest in China is a trading interest, and every pound of profit that a British merchant has made has found its equivalent in value to the Chinese.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many Chinese?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": ". We ourselves have immense interests in China, interests which are as important to China as they are to us. Trade—successful trade—is mutual. Our interest in China is a trading interest, and every pound of profit that a British merchant has made has found its equivalent in value to the Chinese. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] In those circumstances, when some British lives have been lost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And with their lives.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "t. The seeds of the trouble are in the discomfort—I might use a stronger word—and in the discontent of the Chinese people. They are a practical, hardworking, laborious, industrious people. But what has been their position during recent years? There has been no security for life or property. Armies or armed bands or simple brigands have interfered with their crops, and with their trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.918.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "After you had killed them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I repeat it now. If that strike had been confined, or if the movement had been confined to a movement for the amelioration of factory conditions, the despatch which I read in my opening observations would have lent the movement all the support that they could command, but bad factory conditions, however bad they may be, are no excuse for the advance of a murderous mob crying, \"Kill the foreigner.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "llion armed men in China. That is quite a new thing, and you are dealing with the population which is pacifist—which is opposed to war. I have been watching the accounts of these great battles in China, and there is nothing more striking than to see how when these forces come against each other, a few shells are fired, you think a great battle is going to take place, and it ends in a parley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"MOSCOW!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "trolled factories at Shanghai give a lead to all the other factories in China, it will be within the recollection of the House that a somewhat similar statement was made on the 15th of this month by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department. But we can find no evidence whatever for that. I have here the \"International Labour Review,\" published by the International Labour Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The British mills!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "If the Foreign Secretary states, as a matter of fact, that in April of this year these Regulations were adopted at the foreign settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.943.6", "colnum": "943", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should they not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ny foreigners in China—far from it. But equally we will do nothing and say nothing to imperil the lives of any Chinaman in China. Our nationals go out there to exploit the Chinese people. Certain British capitalists have invested sums of money, reported to amount to £26,000,000, there. They do not go there for fun, nor for their health, nor for the scenery. They go out there for profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.943.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.943.6", "colnum": "943", "heading": "CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You cannot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "s exploitation system going in the Far East. We should clear out and leave the Chinese to run their own factories and their own business, trade with us in the ordinary way by exchange of goods, and, by doing so, we shall add to the strength, the might, and the power of the British people. We will give the Chinese fuller right to develop themselves industrially and economically and every other way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.943.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "COMMUNISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"HOW many were there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ish Minority Movement and the Red International and Labour Union on 23rd August, 1924, and at that conference one of the main resolutions passed was in favour of forming one Revolutionary Trade Union International, and they said the International Minority Movement shall elect delegates to attend the conference of the Red International at Moscow. The National Minority Movement was then constituted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "COMMUNISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "The paper said that the great issue for the miners going to the conference must be nationalisation; and that means without compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.952.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "COMMUNISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ion. ] I am beginning to think that there are some Members of this House who might be quite willing to give me the necessary quotations from their own speeches. After the Blackpool Conference the \"Mine Worker\" dealt with the shortcomings and difficulties of the conference and of the decisions, and said it was black in a real sense and was the herald of \"a rotten compromise and peaceful surrender.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.952.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "COMMUNISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "at is not my statement. It is the statement of a paper that is issued by the National Minority Movement, and we are told now apparently that the National Minority Movement is friendly to a peaceful settlement between employer and employed. The gentlemen to whom I referred just now are Mr. Arthur Horner and Mr. Nat. Watkins, who are the heads of the miners' minority movement and who speak for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.952.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "COMMUNISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the union.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "They are the leaders of the particular union, and they signed the manifesto on behalf of the union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.953.4", "colnum": "953", "heading": "COMMUNISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hillhead (Sir Robert Home) is going about the country making statements without knowledge, having nothing to do with the negotiations, making statements which are intended to prejudice the public against any settlement being arrived at. Why do not the Government deal with the men on their own side? I can give the House any number of names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.953.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "COMMUNISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": " movement of this kind by such quotations as we have been listening to to-night? After the speech of the Prime Minister, asking that there should be peace in our time, and considering the delicacy of this question at the present moment, would he not have been better employed in encouraging some sort of peaceful settlement, than in trying to foster the position which he has been endeavouring to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-18", "file": "debates1925-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "1792761268b1b37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.954.5", "colnum": "954", "heading": "COMMUNISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "May I point out that only a few days ago the London Trades Council decided to affiliate with the Minority Movement, and that the Home Secretary is quite right in saying that the Minority Movement is gaining great importance in the trade union world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-18a.954.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-19", "file": "debates1925-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e6fcfdc72bb13099", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-19a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I am hoping that the Government will see their way to accept this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-19a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-19", "file": "debates1925-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e6fcfdc72bb13099", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-19a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They play for the Guards.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member says it is a matter of opinion, but it cannot be. I do not think any Englishman can seriously consider that it is musical, and that it is a concert or an entertainment of any sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-19a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-19", "file": "debates1925-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e6fcfdc72bb13099", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-19a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ay a certain rate, and although we do not agree with them, we feel compelled to pay it, because the medical officers are strong enough to make us. In like manner the engineers come along to those of us who are members of local authorities, and because they are in the economic position to do so they demand that we must pay a rate of remuneration that they have laid down. Is that a trade union rate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-19a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-19", "file": "debates1925-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "e6fcfdc72bb13099", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-19a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "cers of health, and other people in professional positions can almost make us pay, and even go so far as to tell us that they are going to withdraw the doctors from our public institutions if we do not give them what they ask. We are placed, therefore, in relation to the people who are in our asylums, our mental hospitals, our infectious diseases hospitals, placed in the position I have indicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-19a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-22", "file": "debates1925-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "03f6b639f931405b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "ngly from our practical experience, the great importance and real seriousness of the problem which this matter presents. In Germany, before the War, companies were compelled to put to reserve a cer- tain percentage of their profits. In this country the matter has never been dealt with in that stringent way; we have been more lax in our company system than they have been on the Continent of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-22", "file": "debates1925-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "03f6b639f931405b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": " true distinction drawn by the right hon. Gentleman. He says that what the industries of this country want at the present time is not fresh capital but fresh orders. Is not that rather a facile antithesis? Is it a true one! Is there no connection between fresh capital and fresh orders? I think it is perfectly obvious. We are not getting fresh orders because we are not getting enough fresh capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-22", "file": "debates1925-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "03f6b639f931405b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "In view of the promise given from the Front Bench that this matter will be fully investigated during the ensuing financial year, and before next year's Budget, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-22", "file": "debates1925-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "03f6b639f931405b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1195.0", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And from Virginia too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "of Plymouth that it is largely due to Elizabethan Plymouth that we have tobacco to-day. I do not know what Sir Walter Raleigh would have said had he known that in discovering Virginia he was going to produce so good an opponent of tobacco as we have seen in the Noble Lady this afternoon. It is a great pity the Noble Lady, coming from a constituency which has such fine Elizabethan traditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-22", "file": "debates1925-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "03f6b639f931405b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "After the notice was given that the doors were locked, the crowd at the door melted away in a second or two, but while the doors were still open that bunch of Members were there definitely at the door as if they were really blocking the passage intentionally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-22", "file": "debates1925-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "03f6b639f931405b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "I am sure no Government could treat this matter in the spirit suggested, and I am equally sure it will command the sympathy of every Member of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-22", "file": "debates1925-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "03f6b639f931405b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "an. Of two incumbents with emoluments and income otherwise equal, one of whom receive £100 from Easter offerings and the other nothing, to pretend that the taxable ability of the first is not greater than that of the second is to shut one's eyes to reality and give undue weight to a natural sentiment. After all these Easter offerings are not haphazard donations. They are regular and reliable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-22", "file": "debates1925-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "03f6b639f931405b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no general contract.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "preceding_text": "The difficulty there is that, as it is now, a Nonconformist minister, rightly, has a contract of service at so much a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-22", "file": "debates1925-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "03f6b639f931405b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1233.4", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel JAMES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel JAMES", "preceding_text": "d me that while coming up from the country to-day, and passing through a town about 25 miles from London, he had come across a woman by the side of the road who had fallen off her bicycle and was very ill. It was a quarter of an hour before he could get any brandy to give to the woman. He had not got any in his car, and the closing hours prevented his getting any. In 20 minutes the woman was dead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-22", "file": "debates1925-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "03f6b639f931405b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "old; it is the contents of the bottle. I am quite well aware that this question has, for very nearly the last century in this House, been received almost invari- ably with an undue exhibition of the sense of humour. There is no room for treating this matter in a humourous vein in a House which has very grave reason to consider the effects of the particular issue as they see it in the House itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-22", "file": "debates1925-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "03f6b639f931405b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1245.0", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "I am sure the Chancellor is anxious that any grievance in this matter should be met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-22", "file": "debates1925-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "03f6b639f931405b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1246.3", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I am not going to make another speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-22", "file": "debates1925-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "03f6b639f931405b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1246.4", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "May I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-22a.1246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1292.7", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BIRTH CONTROL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is a very general desire in all parts of the House that this question should be discussed at an early date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1292.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "d succeeded in wearing down all the opposition to these taxes. He said, \"Look at the House of Commons. Here we are on the Report stage of the Clause which imposes these Artificial Silk Duties and there are not 40 members present,\" forgetful of the fact that, for the first time in the history of the House, as far as I am aware, a system of organised absenteeism has been introduced by his own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1362.2", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Centipedes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ll the consumers in the country. That is why the Chancellor of the Exchequer speaks so often about sugar. He seems to see some similitude between this Silk Duty and the Sugar Duty. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, drawing upon that inexhaustible source of military metaphor, which we so much enjoy and which is so powerfully handled by him, spoke of these two taxes marching along like two sentinels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "ot present at the council which has taken place. It has frequently been said by the other side that the Government were afraid to fight the by-election, but there would have been no by-election if it had not been for the action taken by the Government. It was because the Government were not afraid to appoint to a certain position a distinguished Member of this House and a political opponent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "sands of pounds a year, nor any single person whom I have met with in the business, has been able to think of any reasonable scheme or method whereby you can make it easier for the exporter to continue through the ordinary business channels and to be able to receive his drawback. We found very definitely that it will mean a cheap protection for the foreigner at the expense of the British consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1390.0", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "ng from foreign markets. My right hon. Friend the Member for Central Edinburgh (Mr. W. Graham) said that we were never going by protective tariffs of this sort to raise in any degree the conditions of the workers abroad, such as, for example, in Calais. The right hon. Gentleman says that he is not concerned with the conditions of the industry of Calais; he is concerned with the conditions at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1394.2", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKENZIE LIVINGSTONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKENZIE LIVINGSTONE", "preceding_text": "s of perhaps 100 passengers in the train, or watch over the safety of the passengers and chance the child being safe. I want to put one simple, straightforward question to the President of the Board of Trade, or to the right hon. Gentleman who has been described from these benches as his frank and charming assistant, and my question is this: Does this Safeguarding White Paper stand or does it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "discrimination. You must not assume that all industries throughout the country are in need of capital, that we must give a flat rate of remission of taxation on whatever they devote to reserves, but that we must find some more discriminating method than the Clause of yesterday. We do believe, however, that saving is necessary. We do believe that some of our industries are in grave need of capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1411.0", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has said so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "se in Death Duties. I could have understood that if, accompanied with this reduction, there was some guarantee offered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that although he was now reducing the Super-tax he was going to increase the Death Duties. The present position is this. He has reduced the Income Tax this year, but before these men die we shall find that he has reduced the Death Duties as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By experience!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "had to look around and see where they could economise, and in that economy they have been compelled to bring about unemployment. The reverse applies—that if there were a saving in the payment of taxation they would again look round and see where the could spend money in order to find employment. One hon. Member said that no employer would find work for the sake of doing so. How does he know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1424.4", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It may be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "t the penury of the people is deepening day by day. I have been this week-end in my constituency, where 9,000 men and women are signing the unemployment roll. They are not unemployed because they are \"wont-works\" and wastrels. They are industrious, hard working people, out of employment because the pits have closed, and the pits have closed because they are not paying, and not for lack of capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1424.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "lready receiving £6 a day, because the Super-tax payers are receiving £6 a day income as a minimum. For these reasons I enter my protest against those proposals. I am not sorry you have done this. You have only justified all we have said at the last election. We will be justified in going to the country and saying you are the rich man's party. Robbing the rich at the expense of the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1442.0", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "preceding_text": "l kind of exemption for one or two classes connected with land is going to become more and more a settled policy of the present Government. Already we have seen during the last 20 or 30 years how special treatment has been provided in the matter of agricultural rates, differentiating between the small occupier and the larger occupier of agricultural land, and piling on to the small occupier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide\"!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Carnarvon Boroughs was referring to the small farmers. I had not intended to intervene in this Debate, but there happened to be lying in front of me a copy of \"Whitaker's Almanac,\" and it occurred to me that it might contain some figures relevant to this Debate. I find from it that the number of farms in this country under 300 acres is 411,000 and the number above 300 acres is only 2,000 or 3,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1454.2", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "e interest of the consumer as a citizen that we are entitled to speak in this House. Take the case of shoes. Under the Schedule the Chancellor is levying a duty of 2 per cent. on the value of shoes. I have a letter, which was sent to the London Chamber of Commerce, signed by the Saxone Shoe Company, Upsons, Limited, Messrs. Lilley and Skinner and the London Shoe Company. These people import shoes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1454.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1472.4", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "less, but it charges the cheap stuff more and the dear stuff less. There is ninon at 4 per cent., Japanese silk at 20 per cent., and other grades up to 26 per cent. You cannot get out of that so long as you tax material by weight instead of by value. That is what we have repeatedly pointed out. I have an easy way of escape from the tax. Throw the whole lot overboard and save the money on warships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1472.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "has done this by Amendment. It was not in the original balance of the scheme. He has not given any justification for such taxation. It is simply part of a general protective scheme. The Chancellor of the Exchequer knows perfectly well where he stands and how long he can stand there, and on what conditions. He knows that he has to make his peace with the Protectionist Members of the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-23", "file": "debates1925-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec226c0fb7f56398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1481.2", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " Paper and I notice that paragraph 7, which is a temporary Measure for the re-import of things sent abroad, was covered by a provision of Clause 10 of this Bill. I find the Clause has nothing to do with the subject. I was somewhat perplexed to find on the Paper to-day that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has amended his own Amendment, and that it now turns out to be Clause 11.It is a small matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-23a.1481.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-24", "file": "debates1925-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a82aa29cc56804a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-24a.1511.6", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "As this man can only be disqualified because, owing to his age, he is not able to secure work, is the hon. Gentleman aware that this man is able to work at his trade, and is as good a citizen as any hon. Member of this House, and if this man is disqualified with his long record of good service and good work on behalf of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-24a.1511.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-24", "file": "debates1925-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a82aa29cc56804a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-24a.1528.7", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OUTDOOR RELIEF, PONTYPRIDD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member is so ignorant of the doings of his Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-24a.1528.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-24", "file": "debates1925-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a82aa29cc56804a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-24a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPOSED SECURITY PACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In simple language?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "e and more into the background and the grandiose view that the Foreign Secretary has appealed to us to keep in view will recede instead of approaching. I suggest that a greater ideal than this Pact is the ideal of the League of Nations, acting, energetic, supported by this country, really efficient, and efficient on the lines of the Protocol which lays down in simple language the principles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-24a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1683.8", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the great fears which have been created for bye-election purposes amongst ex-service men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1683.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1699.8", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "May I point out that in the first part of this question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1699.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "The answer to that is given in the second part of the answer to which I have referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1700.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERSKINE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERSKINE", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that there is only one real known remedy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1706.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1755.3", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you read his Election address?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "of articles are. I will briefly enumerate them: Motor cars and accessories, clocks and watches, musical instruments, cinema films, lace and embroidery, artificial silk, and, finally, hops. All these interests have their supporters on the benches opposite, and a considerable wedge has already been driven into the Prime Minister's pledge that Protection would not be re-introduced in this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1777.3", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "resent Prime Minister. He has pledged himself that he will never consent to the taxation of food. The Prime Minister is an honourable man. They are all honourable men. But the Prime Minister is not eternal, and he is not without colleagues. There are two or three of his most powerful colleagues who still adhere to the slogan of the prophet of this new dispensation, the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1777.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1788.0", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FREDRIC WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FREDRIC WISE", "preceding_text": " an able speech on the Budget, which showed that there were many Departments in which there was a possibility of a reduction in expenditure. The Supply Services are fourfold up compared with pre-War days. I have had the honour of sitting on the Estimates Committee and the Public Accounts Committee for about four years, and I have missed only one or two of the Committee meetings during that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1794.3", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Steel!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ing of the Committee of Ways and Means took place on that New Clause and we must ask the Financial Secretary to give us some forecast on this point. Is this the last Finance Bill of the year? The Prime Minister told us that if any of these new duties which are being asked for were granted, they would be embodied in new Finance Bills. There are committees sitting on half-a-dozen trumpery inquiries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1795.3", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Serves you right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ho come in for the bounty of the Chancellor in the Budget. The only concession that has been made in the course of all these long Debates, although demands have been made for increased allowances to children and dependants and many other deserving classes, was that of £500,000 to the landlords, and that was made in a very re markable way. We were sitting here in the middle of the night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1795.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1801.1", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "EMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Well, let us take the votes cast. Take Ayr first. The votes cast in Ayr for the Government Budget were noticeably reduced from the last Election. Take the votes at East-bourne. The votes cast there for the Government Budget were notably reduced. Take the case of Oldham. It is even more striking. The number who voted against the Budget was 48,000; the number who voted for it was nil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1816.5", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ommons. I accept fully all the verbal pledges that have been made, but that is my interpretation of it. The House may be sure that the pledges which have been made by the Prime Minister and by other Ministers, and which were embodied in the platform of the party, will be strictly and faithfully honoured in substance and in spirit. There is no question whatever of a breach of pledge in that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1816.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1816.5", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As a result of Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Labour Benches when they found the Father of the House, the old Radical Free Trader, reproaching them with their weakness in yielding to the growing convictions and movements of their minds in regard to Imperial Preference. I must remind my right hon. Friend of some of the language which he used. \"The wolf is at our door.\" \"Selfish men are trying to get rich at the expense of the community\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1816.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1816.5", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not take it off?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "very good example of this kind of thing. I challenge the right hon. Gentleman opposite to say that if he were in a position to take off £6,000,000 of indirect taxation he would take off the Silk Duty before he took off the duty on tea. What nonsense we have heard about silk being one of the vital necessaries of the poorest people in the land. Tea is a basic comfort of the very poorest people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1816.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1825.2", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "y standards, and so forth. Take health expenditure—housing expenditure—and old age pensions, which are growing automatically and which are a matter of public faith. There are the War pensions. Does anyone suggest that we should reduce the pensions of soldiers who were wounded in the War, and their widows? There is the question of unemployment insurance, which is not likely to diminish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1847.0", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (MONEY) BILL. (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But they have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "preceding_text": "I never in my life spoke of scrapping the trams, but my suggestion was that as they have not paid up to the present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1874.6", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "n proportion to road user by the particular vehicle concerned. I must say that in my view motorists in general will have very grave cause for complaint if the Road Fund is ever diverted to other purposes than the construction or maintenance of roads. With regard to the suggestion I have thrown out that the motor industry might be helped, I am going to make four or rive practical suggestions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1874.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ived when some of those privileged people should show that they can rise above class feeling and mere love of money and the desire to flaunt their wealth in the face of the starving multitudes of this country, as at Ascot. It is time that these people recognised the difficulties of the country by offering to make the sacrifice, instead of waiting until the people compel them to make the sacrifice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "which they are not entitled, which makes still further for the misery of the poor, and which has been brought forward by a Chancellor of the Exchequer who has changed his opinions as often as it is possible for any human being to change his opinions, and who in his first Budget finds it necessary to placate the party behind him so that they will feel that he is secure as a Tory now and henceforth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sob stuff!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "now and henceforth. [ Interruption. ] I am speaking for the people I represent, many of whom are going through starvation at the present time. If hon. Members opposite went into their constituencies as often as I go into mine and as some of my colleagues go into theirs, and heard the pitiful tales of my constituents there would not be such a feeling of liveliness at this time of the evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do something!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ugh starvation at the present time. If hon. Members opposite went into their constituencies as often as I go into mine and as some of my colleagues go into theirs, and heard the pitiful tales of my constituents there would not be such a feeling of liveliness at this time of the evening— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sob stuff!\"]— rather sob stuff than the snob stuff which we get from the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oldham!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "bed the people too long, you and your class. You have done too much to the people of this country. It is because of the things that you and your party have done to the people that the country is in the state in which it is to-day. I am prepared to go into any industrial constituency with any hon. Member who supports the Finance Bill, and take the mind of the people in that industrial constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Old ham!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ountry is in the state in which it is to-day. I am prepared to go into any industrial constituency with any hon. Member who supports the Finance Bill, and take the mind of the people in that industrial constituency. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oldham!\"] Go into any constituency that is not thimble-rigged with the vote, go into any constituency that has been going through unemployment for the past three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ON. MEMBERS: \"Oldham!\"] Go into any constituency that is not thimble-rigged with the vote, go into any constituency that has been going through unemployment for the past three years. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Old ham!\"] Oldham has not been going through unemployment for the past three years. It is a curious thing that Hon. Members on the other side should talk about Oldham. They were afraid to fight Oldham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1880.0", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I can excuse the feelings of hon. Members opposite. Of course, they are not concerned very much with the unemployment that exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-25", "file": "debates1925-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "79f026fdafaa2cfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1880.0", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I can excuse the feelings of hon. Members opposite. Of course, they are not concerned very much with the unemployment that exists. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] When I say that they are not concerned with unemployment, they have a number of unemployed friends of theirs, but they have a big unemployment dole and they are not turned down by the Employment Exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-25a.1880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-26", "file": "debates1925-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "70089fbbcc0cd8f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-26a.1908.2", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLOTMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "their families should be given, not a quarter of an acre, but up to an acre of land, and given every encouragement and facility to cultivate it for the benefit of themselves and their families, and when they had any surplus to dispose of, whether it be honey, vegetables, eggs, or anything else, they should be compelled to sell that surplus produce to the community at a rate to be fixed in advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-26a.1908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-26", "file": "debates1925-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "70089fbbcc0cd8f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-26a.1911.1", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLOTMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Less than that\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOOD", "preceding_text": "seemed to me a perfectly astounding statement. He said that at the present moment there are about 1,250,000 allotment holders—something like that number—and that if we could double the number of allotment holders we should solve the unemployed problem. Does he really think that? Does he think that a Yorkshire miner who has been accustomed to draw his £4, £5 or £6 a week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-26a.1911.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-06-26", "file": "debates1925-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "70089fbbcc0cd8f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-26a.1964.0", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLOTMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "These cases were in different counties.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "eal to the promoters to consider the advisability of releasing the improvements and giving allotment holders every encouragement to go on developing their equipments rather than, as at present, penalising them for every improvement. Under the, present law, in the case of fox coverts, as I have shown, assessments are reduced, but when you turn land into small holdings the assessments are increased,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-26a.1963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-26", "file": "debates1925-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "70089fbbcc0cd8f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-26a.1972.1", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL PERFORMERS' PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should not they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "preceding_text": "p pace with them. But frequently we have new discoveries, and the development of some new set of circumstances which open out an uncharted sea. This is such a case. My hon. Friend who is promoting the Bill has described what may happen, and what in fact, as I understand him, is actually happening. It is already the fact that people in their homes are able to take fairly clear and accurate records.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-26a.1972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-26", "file": "debates1925-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "70089fbbcc0cd8f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-26a.1972.1", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL PERFORMERS' PROTECTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Heaven help us!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "preceding_text": "ion should not go unchecked, but in my view there is an aspect of the matter which is important and with which my hon. Friend has not dealt, but which makes it increasingly desirable that this kind of thing should not go unregulated. We have reason to believe—I have heard it rumoured—that the day is not far distant when an eager public may be listening to the proceedings of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-26a.1972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2005.1", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAWSON", "preceding_text": "In view of the majority by which the Bill was passed in this House, and in view of the fact that all the arguments on both sides have been exhausted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2005.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2022.1", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIVATE DINNER (POLICE OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I cannot say that I have ever been there. I must deprecate any hon. Member putting questions which are likely to damage either persons or companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2022.6", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIVATE DINNER (POLICE OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Some of you fellows have got red heads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2022.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2055.1", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that!\" and other HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "people have been knocked off the register in order to try and save its funds, while a few thousands have been put on on account of the abolition of the gap and one or two other amendments, proper and adequate amendments, that were made while we were in office. There is another point. We were told the other day by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that a large part of the increase was owing to fraud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2057.0", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not the 'Herald'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "For the very simple reason that certain reports were supplied by an agency, and the two or three newspapers that published the qualified report must only rank as one, whereas, so far as newspaper accurate reporting is concerned, untouched and unrevised by Ministers and speakers, I prefer to take the \"Times.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2057.0", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " on the other side will agree with this. Outside, there is a tremendous lot, if not most, of this volume of public opinion, which is passed along and expressed along from mouth to mouth, and from society to society, which goes upon the assumption that it is the fraudulent applications that have got successfully through that is so largely responsible for the increase in the figures of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2057.0", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "uld become an effective competitive cost. I have heard that said so often, and yet in our substantial industries the real wages paid to-day, compared with the wages paid in 1913–14 have fallen instead of increased. The increases in nominal wages have not kept pace with the increase in the cost of living. And so to-day the general poverty of our people is greater than it was in 1913–14.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2057.0", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "le is greater than it was in 1913–14. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"] I hope hon. Members will notice that I say that the general poverty of our people is greater to-day than it was before the War, and still figures are produced to show that our cost of production is so high that effective competition cannot follow. A year ago the outlook was quite different. A year ago there was confidence about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2061.1", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "I have quoted sentences from the hon. Member's own lender to show that he gave the country to expect exactly the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2061.1", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Wash.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "art of that wealth will fructify in the pockets of the masses of the people. There is one important direction in which all Governments which have been concerned with unemployment have been trying to find some profitable channel down which their energies and their sympathies might run. I refer to land. We have our derelict land. We have water-logged land. We have land that may easily Ibe reclaimed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The War!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "1910. The right hon. Gentleman says, \"I have changed my views.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " were limiting the amount of money that can now profitably be spent by the public in the afforestation of land, and that no scheme for the association of afforestation with land settlement, village communities, and so on, has yet been elaborated. As to electrical development, when we came into office we found practically nothing; but we left certain schemes in a very advanced stage of exploration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "are working. Take Imperial matters. Take East Africa and Indian railways, desiring development and requiring development. Nothing has been done so far as we can see. The Report which has been issued by the Committee that went to East Africa indicates great possibilities. What is the Government doing to meet those possibilities? Take the question of foreign trade. There is still the Russian market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "n Russia by its agents and representatives who are negotiating for grain deliveries. Whilst we imagine that we are staying out, it is our money that is enabling certain States to conduct negotiations and force prices up against us. That is business, I suppose, from the other side of the House. If hon. Members had seen what I have seen, whatever their political prejudices may be about Russia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " Members had seen what I have seen, whatever their political prejudices may be about Russia—[ Laughter ]. It is not a laughing matter. Go to the East Coast of Scotland now. This, normally, is the fishing season. Normally the vast worthy population of that part of Scotland is on the sea catching herrings, mainly for the Russian market. The fish curers refuse to buy because there is no market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will not pay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " is not a laughing matter. Go to the East Coast of Scotland now. This, normally, is the fishing season. Normally the vast worthy population of that part of Scotland is on the sea catching herrings, mainly for the Russian market. The fish curers refuse to buy because there is no market. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] \"Hear, hear!\" That is all very well. They refuse to buy because there is no market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "f that part of Scotland is on the sea catching herrings, mainly for the Russian market. The fish curers refuse to buy because there is no market. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] \"Hear, hear!\" That is all very well. They refuse to buy because there is no market. [An HON. MEMBER: \"They will not pay.\"] There is any amount to pay. By bringing Russia within the scope of the Overseas Credit Schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2070.5", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "s, you may fairly set the general, and on the whole progressive, improvement in the trades that are more related to personal consumption—clothes, boots. and shoes, furniture and distribution. The importance of that is that it shows that up to now, during these difficult times through which we have been passing, the purchasing power of the community as a whole has not been seriously impaired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2070.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2070.5", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "eir eyes for some time past—I rejoice that they should— to the land. But I venture to think that they have still a good deal to learn about the land. The difficulty is this: There does exist, perhaps not among hon. Members opposite, but certainly among their supporters in the country, an honest and genuine belief that by a stroke of the pen you can put the unemployed on the land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2070.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2079.1", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " a practical scheme worked out for them which is at this moment being examined very carefully by a strong Committee, and if that Committee report as I hope it may—and it certainly will report before long—that that scheme is practicable, we shall then take the necessary steps to get the scheme put into existence, and to pass whatever legislation may be necessary to enable it to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2087.1", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about last year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "sidered them, I think it would be of great service if any Member in this House has criticism or opinion on these subjects that he should give the House the benefit, because I believe the subject of unemployment is one which the whole House should join hands to try to solve, and not employ all the time, although this is a Vote of Censure, in picking holes in what has been or what has not been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2088.0", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is what your own people say about them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " moving, and we shall move, into a state of far closer co-operation in industry than we have before. If we do not, we shall never recover our industries; and to win that position, and get that co-operation which is essential, I shall continue to devote every effort of which I am able. I know it is the fashion among some hon. Members opposite to call my speeches \"sermons.\" I do not mind if they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2088.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2089.0", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "s taunted us with having had a sovereign remedy for unemployment! He stated that he had never claimed to have a remedy. I do not think it would be difficult for me to prove from the speeches of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite that when they went to the country they led it intentionally to believe that if they were returned to office with a substantial majority, unemployment would disappear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2092.1", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not money wages!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " the surplus in development, we have, and have naturally, industrial stagnation. To reduce wages will not help that. The intelligent course, if it were possible—I am not submitting that in the world-wide position in which we are placed it is momentarily possible—the intelligent way out of the difficulty would be in a substantial and ever-continuous increase in the wages of the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2092.1", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "oods were wage-earners, and that the wages of the wage-earners are fixed by the price of the commodity, and that when you bring down wages as you bring down prices you do not add to the purchasing power of three-fourths of the population. That being the case, if it were a practical policy, the way out of our present difficulties would be to increase the purchasing power of all people of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2105.0", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So were you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ointment as Prime Minister; but then came the tragic declaration which he made at the Queen's Hall after he had announced the Dissolution of Parliament, after he had announced practically the end of his Ministry: The cure for unemployment has not yet been found. He had been feeling very confident. He had schemes, and there was the late President of the Board of Trade, who was oozing schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2105.0", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After you! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "earch, the construction of great roads—there was not a single scheme that was introduced by the late Government that was beyond a small, halting step on the road on which we started. Therefore, I say that the right hon. Gentleman has moved a Vote of Censure to-day on a subject which it is peculiarly unfitting to censure at this stage, and that he is the last man who has the right to move it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2105.0", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "he road on which we started. Therefore, I say that the right hon. Gentleman has moved a Vote of Censure to-day on a subject which it is peculiarly unfitting to censure at this stage, and that he is the last man who has the right to move it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"After you! \"] I have not moved it, because I think it is a most inappropriate occasion. And let me point this out, that when last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2108.1", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a Welshman! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "e the facts. I am not at the present moment criticising them, because there is no one more conscious of the difficulties than I am, but speeches can be quoted from every right hon. Gentleman on the Labour Benches about what they were going to do. The only one in the case of whom I cannot find anything is the late Colonial Secretary, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby (Mr. J. H. Thomas).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2130.3", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in Yorkshire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "have unemployment in my county and in Wales on a scale which other people scarcely understand. Unemployment is a terrible thing, wherever you find it, but you get some areas where it is scattered here and there, and although large numbers of people are concerned, it is varied to such an extent that it is not felt quite so heavily as in other places. But what is the position in Wales and in Durham?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2130.3", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have done it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": " of the black spots about which the Prime Minister spoke, this country is in a dangerous position, and I warn the Government that the last thing they should do is to cut down unemployment benefit or continue to rob miners of their right. I would not have said a word about this to-night, because I should not like to do anything or say anything which would mar the proper solution of these questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2132.0", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "ng carry on the production or the sale of goods at a loss. We are under the necessity, whether it be private enterprise or not, not to do that. Hon. Members opposite overlook that point sometimes. An hon. Member in one of our debates referred to the instance of a colliery in his own constituency, and said if the mine had only been owned by the State that colliery would never have been closed down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2135.1", "colnum": "2135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "ose cases the 10 per cent. would be deducted from the wages as well as from the higher salaried people. In the case of the unsheltered industries, those in which there is the greatest volume of unemployment, and where, unfortunately, the rate of pay is very low, instead of asking for any reduction we should have to ask for an increase of output equivalent to the 10 per cent., or extra time worked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2135.1", "colnum": "2135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "000,000 out of the £800,000,000. What a relief that would be all round. In addition to the benefits I have endeavoured to enumerate, every industry and every workman or workwoman would benefit by the reduction of the present levy for unemployment insurance, because of the vast number of people who would be brought into work again; and since this sacrifice would be general and universal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2139.0", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2139.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.3", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "That is not true!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "we ought to be discussing a Vote of Censure upon the Government. One can understand the affection of a fond parent for his own offspring, and that may explain the reason why the right hon. Gentleman has occupied so much of the time this evening in explaining and attempting to defend a scheme which is antiquated and for which, up to the present, he has been unable to find even one single supporter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.5", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " the Labour Government had when in office Therefore we are justified in asking him, why does not he apply his positive remedy. The only reply he could give to us this afternoon was that, as we had said we had a positive remedy, it rested not with him but with us to propound some practical scheme for lessening the number of unemployed. But the right hon. Gentleman should be the man of action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.5", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ing—and he advised the country to buy only British goods. I am quite sure that the Prime Minister did not give one moment's consideration to the matter before he gave that advice to the country. What are the industries which he tells us are depressed, which constitute in the main the unemployment problem in its aggravated form? Cotton? The people are advised to buy only British cotton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.5", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ime Minister did not give one moment's consideration to the matter before he gave that advice to the country. What are the industries which he tells us are depressed, which constitute in the main the unemployment problem in its aggravated form? Cotton? The people are advised to buy only British cotton— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"]—and by that means improve employment in the cotton trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.5", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "already. Not only do we supply the home market with cotton, but in normal times four-fifths of the output of Lancashire is sent to foreign markets. Again, another of those depressed industries is coal, and we are advised to solve the unemployment problem by buying only British coal. The shipbuilding industry is also an exceedingly depressed industry, and so we are to buy only British ships —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.5", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Make it 100 per cent.!\" and Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ays the same persons. The right hon. Gentleman himself read out figures which show that probably half to three-quarters of the workers of this country are unemployed for some time during the period of 12 months. Therefore this is not merely, as the right hon. Gentleman tried to make appear, a problem of 10 per cent. of our population, but a problem of 40 per cent., of 50 per cent., of 70 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.5", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A peroration!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ight place, is utterly devoid of all ideas for dealing with this grave problem which is growing more grave day by day. That is why we ask the House of Commons to support this Vote of Censure. Of course we know that we shall not carry it. Those servile hordes, including the squads who have been recalled from leave, will support the Government in the Lobby to-night. Dare I conclude with these words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2159.0", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "preceding_text": "om the figures. If the right hon. Gentleman did not mean that, there was no other inference that could be drawn from his words as he used them, which I took down. Moreover, the words which he used were these, that this Government had been sleepless in their efforts to knock off the register those who were entitled to be on it. There is not a single shadow of substance of any sort or kind for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2162.0", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "He never said anything of the kind, and we were very careful indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2162.0", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not say that last year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ain and again at this table, and in the country, that no Government can actually provide a cure for unemployment. We have been scoffed at for saying that openly, straightforwardly, and honestly, but I say it again to-night. Every one who is honest with himself in this House 99 per cent. of us—must realise that no Government, whoever they be, can create a cure at this moment for unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2162.0", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give us the figures!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ken. He spoke about grants to local authorities. Here the difficulty is as, of course, we all know, that a grant is a strain upon their funds. Take also afforestation. That is going forward faster than was the case when the Government of the right hon. Gentleman was in power. Then road making, the amount of that work is half as much again as when the right hon. Gentleman's Government was in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2162.0", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the good?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "question of Imperial Development to which the right hon. Gentleman has alluded, by migration to the Dominions. A migrant to the Dominions is an infinitely better customer for the goods of our manufacturers in this country than is any other citizen of any other country abroad. I wonder what the party opposite, with one or two honourable exceptions, have done for promoting migration to our Colonies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2162.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2165.1", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sugar!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I will answer the right hon. Gentleman in a minute. I am going to deal with coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2165.1", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes we have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " again and again that we have charged the Labour party with not producing their cure, and he has asked what is our cure? He told the House that we came forward with a policy of Protection for this country. We did so, and we put it before the country. The right hon. Gentleman opposite and his friends pressed forward what they call their positive remedy, but they have never yet disclosed what it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-29", "file": "debates1925-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "76363c4edbbe65ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are you going to do about unemployment!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "hile to come and say anything to support it? That was their proposal—a proposal which the Chancellor of the Exchequer well knows would never have worked if they had tried to put it into operation. But the Leader of the Opposition has a Celtic imagination and sometimes when he thinks of a bright idea, his imagination projects it into the world of fact as though it was a thing already in being", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-29a.2166.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2275.0", "colnum": "2275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "into power. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I anticipated those cheers. I should like to say to hon. Gentlemen opposite that I, at any rate, am one of those—and I speak on this particular point with some little knowledge—who are convinced that the country put this Government in power very largely for the purpose of bringing forward the scheme which we are considering at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2275.0", "colnum": "2275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "he last year or two, have taken some modest, some little part in commending this principle to the country at large. I have spoken on it in many places, and on this particular point I do speak with some knowledge. I am absolutely convinced that, if those for whom hon. Gentlemen opposite claim particularly to represent were consulted, they themselves would be in favour of the contributory principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2275.0", "colnum": "2275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "nister of Health in his determination that this Bill shall be on a contributory basis. But I support that principle most of all for this reason, that we are either going to have this Bill on a contributory basis, or we are not going to have the Bill at all. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite must take the responsibility for this Amendment. If it is carried it means the destruction of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2292.4", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "s' time, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he introduced the Sugar Taxes did not ask us to vote for them, and inform us afterwards what Sugar Taxes we had imposed. When the Parliamentary Secretary comes to speak, I hope he will take the Committee into his confidence in a manner which appears quite alien to the Minister of Health himself. Of course he is more genial than the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2292.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2301.0", "colnum": "2301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "n the other side to hear with patience. Here, again, I am not saying a word about the individual. If you have a system with individuals packed into it, you have to take it as it is. I give it because I want to emphasise the fact that there is one standard expected of the poor, and another standard expected of the very rich and well-to-do. If a King dies you pay his widow £70,000 a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2311.0", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "opular. That may be so, but a scheme may be popular at this stage, before it gets to work, and he unpopular when contributions have to be paid, and when widows who think that they are inside the Act find that they are outside the Act. This country to-day is raising for National Debt purposes £350,000,000 a year, which goes mostly to people who render no social service to the community for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2311.0", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "stood for five minutes a shabby thing like that, which is contemptible from the Tories, and which would be equally so from any other kind of Government. My view is that our party never would have introduced it because the party would never have agreed to it. Our view is that there is too much talk about poverty. Where is the poverty? Ascot does not prove poverty, your dresses do not prove poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2321.1", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I want to protest against your putting) this Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2321.3", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I am not going to sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2321.3", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I am not going to sit down. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"] I raise a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2326.0", "colnum": "2326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain GEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GEE", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that you, Sir, or Mr. Speaker, has a discretionary power, and that no Member of the House has a right to call upon you to explain why you exercise that discretionary power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2327.1", "colnum": "2327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "formation which had not been discussed by the Committee, which had not been before the Committee and which could not have been discussed in the four hours Debate and therefore your point that it was an abuse of the rules to move to report Progress because that Motion was made with the object of discussing something which had already been discussed is, as I think on reflection you will admit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2327.1", "colnum": "2327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "d not been before the Committee and which could not have been discussed in the four hours Debate and therefore your point that it was an abuse of the rules to move to report Progress because that Motion was made with the object of discussing something which had already been discussed is, as I think on reflection you will admit—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]—I think, Sir, on reflection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2327.1", "colnum": "2327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "n discussed in the four hours Debate and therefore your point that it was an abuse of the rules to move to report Progress because that Motion was made with the object of discussing something which had already been discussed is, as I think on reflection you will admit—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]—I think, Sir, on reflection—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] —I think on reflection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2328.0", "colnum": "2328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Even though the point of Order is being made at length, I think in the past many things in this House have been carried through to a useful issue by lengthy points of Order. I am asking if, on reflection, when you have seen what I have said recorded in the OFFICIAL REPORT you will not admit that you were a little precipitate in keeping your eyes fixed on the Government side of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2337.0", "colnum": "2337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "Has not this whole matter been before the electorate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2343.0", "colnum": "2343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the same on your side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": " a question far beyond anything in the way of partisanship, and I feel confident that many of those on the other side would respond if it were not for this discipline that comes over the party system and tells a man that, whatever he may have thought of a given deliverance from any speaker, however much his heart might have been touched or his mind influenced, he is met by the Whip who says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2382.0", "colnum": "2382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "idual who enters the scheme gets eventually the full equivalent of his contributions, but we have to consider whether the benefits which are possible are on the whole equivalent to the aggregate of the contributions. That is the proper basis of an insurance system. What hon. Members do not see is that they are taking a particular case which is, as a matter of fact, of comparatively rare occurence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2385.3", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "women are supporting such men and they will go on paying, and when the man dies they get nothing whatever, but they have to go on paying into the fund after he has died in order that they may get the Old Age Pension. The man may at this time only be earning a little money, but it may be enough to help pay the rent and keep things going, and you will leave her high and dry with her children if any.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2388.2", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "I do not know that what the hon. Member is saying has very much to do with the Amendment under discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2392.0", "colnum": "2392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "has to be decided by an organisation set up under the Unemployment Insurance Act, but that is not so. The rota committees and the employment exchanges have nothing to do with this matter so far as the prolongation of insurance Act is concerned. What happens is that the approved society inquires into the circumstances of their own members through their committee of management elected by themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2395.0", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "is charged with administering a fund which has nothing whatever to do with this question. What a confused state of legislation. I do not think the Government have foreseen this extraordinary administrative incorrectitude. The position is so serious and the confusion still remains so much that I think the Government would be well advised to allow us to report Progress so that we may meet to-morrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2395.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2431.0", "colnum": "2431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "ething was being done for their offspring. But here in this Bill, while we have speeches made in relation to what is going to be done for the widows, while we have flowery speeches and words to convey something which is not there, when we come down to the cash measurement we find the real heart of the Tory party. It always looks upon those who are poor as being something inferior to what they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2433.7", "colnum": "2433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "eme in their mind a year ago. He says he knows about it or knows sufficient to think that by mentioning it to frighten Members on this side of the Committee. If the Socialist Government had introduced a Measure of this kind they would have found Opposition on this side of the Committee. Curiously enough, the well-fed, highly intelligent, practical men of the Tory party, the Capitalist party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2433.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2439.6", "colnum": "2439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is better than nothing that you gave them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "y much whether any hon. Member in any part of the House will go to his constituency to explain all the details of this Bill and assume he is going to be looked upon as a public benefactor. On the contrary, when you have to go to your constituencies and say that I voted in the House of Commons that 21s. a week was enough for a widow and three children you will get an answer you will not care about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2439.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2442.1", "colnum": "2442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the cats?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "If you wish to send a dog to a dog and cat home you will have to pay from three to four shillings more per week for maintaining that animal in the home than the Minister of Health is proposing to give for a widow under this Bill. Laugh now! The dogs are silent. There is no barking now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2443.4", "colnum": "2443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "the Amendment, they may say as much as they like on the platform that 10s. was not sufficient and they did not consider it sufficient for the widows, but the fact that they voted for the 10s. with another Amendment on the Paper for a larger sum will be taken as conclusive evidence that they talk one way on the platform and act in another manner in the House of Commons. It is not a political issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2443.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2464.2", "colnum": "2464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENNIS HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENNIS HERBERT", "preceding_text": "Has not the Committee retained the word \"ten,\" and does that not debar—?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2473.0", "colnum": "2473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I cannot help thinking that the hon. Member who moved this Amendment did not quite appreciate what he was moving. I am confirmed in that view because he went on to substitute 12s. 6d. for the amount of 12s., which is really suggested in the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2475.0", "colnum": "2475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "t is objectionable to identify pensions under this Bill with war pensions. The Attorney-General took advantage of a remark made earlier in the evening when dealing with this matter, and only his skill in Parliamentary language saved what he said from being offensive. I would like to know whether the Government can give a specific assurance that there is no intention of touching these war pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2475.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2483.3", "colnum": "2483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "This is an instance of the great disadvantage of discussing a Bill without knowing anything about it. I have here a copy of a newspaper which, a few hours ago, would have been described as \"to-morrow's Daily Mail,\" but which is now \"to-day's Daily Mail.\" There I read the following statement: It is understood that a cut of 3d. or 2d. in the case of employers \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2483.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-06-30", "file": "debates1925-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b986685df085c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2483.4", "colnum": "2483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman has given a computation of how much it would cost if this Amendment were accepted. I am trying to find out whether his basis was the new rates or the old rates. This gives me the opportunity of drawing the attention of the Committee to the fact that here is a newspaper which has received advance information on a subject which has been relevant to the whole of our discussion to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-06-30a.2483.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-01", "file": "debates1925-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "803c36ff86a9a3d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2671.5", "colnum": "2671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "e saved some amount of disorder. [ Laughter. ] I can understand that this business is a joke to the Members who only come to vote, but those who sat here all last night trying to improve the Bill feel that it is a serious matter. What we object to to-night is that the Attorney-General a few hours ago was asked a question by one of my hon. Friends who very seldom takes part in debate in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2671.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-01", "file": "debates1925-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "803c36ff86a9a3d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2672.3", "colnum": "2672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Surely a Member is entitled to express an opinion. I am going to tell you you are wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-01", "file": "debates1925-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "803c36ff86a9a3d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2673.2", "colnum": "2673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "onsiderable complexity, which requires careful examination, and which has received no more but rather less consideration than similar measures in the past, we should be compelled night after night to sit up in order to proceed with the Measure to the exhaustion, both of the Ministers in charge and of the Members of this House. Belonging, as I do, to a small group which cannot work in relays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2673.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-01", "file": "debates1925-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "803c36ff86a9a3d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2673.2", "colnum": "2673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "people outside who are deeply interested in every part of this Bill. They may not be following it in the detail with which we have to follow it, but after all they are following it, and therefore I think it is very remarkable indeed that the discussion should have to be carried on under such conditions, for no reason that I can ascertain except possibly that we shall have a little earlier holiday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2673.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-01", "file": "debates1925-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "803c36ff86a9a3d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2676.0", "colnum": "2676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "I want to say only a word or two—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"]—because whatever else the Minister of Health may have to say on the debate I am quite sure that he cannot complain of any sort of obstruction, at least from the Front Opposition Bench. There has been absolutely none—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-01", "file": "debates1925-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "803c36ff86a9a3d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2678.2", "colnum": "2678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " in operation on the Government side of the House and we are unable to organise a system of relays under which hon. Members opposite are being encouraged to neglect their Parliamentary duties. I think the country should know the way in which the Chief Government Whip thinks it desirable to use his steam roller majority because his supporters are not even on the premises to listen to our arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2678.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-01", "file": "debates1925-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "803c36ff86a9a3d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2681.4", "colnum": "2681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLEAN", "preceding_text": "jections, they favoured. If that is the way in which hon. Members and right hon. Members opposite are going to carry out their views, and if the Government is going to use that blind loyalty and that unswerving devotion of the dumb, patient, driven oxen behind them, we, on these Benches, or some of us, are going to make as much trouble as we possibly can for the Government. We will keep them here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-01", "file": "debates1925-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "803c36ff86a9a3d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2686.0", "colnum": "2686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " that mood, and for the purposes of the appropriate pursuit, but never until I joined the House of Commons have I known a sane body of men who pretended to be seriously doing business openly and glaringly keeping these hours which on other occasions we try to deny that we ever keep, on the pretext that they are really doing business. The style of stuff with which we are going on now is just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-01", "file": "debates1925-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "803c36ff86a9a3d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2709.0", "colnum": "2709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "nce that people has lost its soul. The nation that cannot retain a decent proportion of its population in a state of independence is very low in the social and international scale. I am sure all Members of the House of Commons know it is impossible to retain that sense of independence if you are a member of the wage-earning class. Their conditions of employment destroy that spirit of independence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-01", "file": "debates1925-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "803c36ff86a9a3d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2709.0", "colnum": "2709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, we have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "ndence is very low in the social and international scale. I am sure all Members of the House of Commons know it is impossible to retain that sense of independence if you are a member of the wage-earning class. Their conditions of employment destroy that spirit of independence. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I am sorry that hon. Members opposite do not agree with me, but I have been there, and you have not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2709.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-01", "file": "debates1925-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "803c36ff86a9a3d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2716.3", "colnum": "2716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "ble to maintain themselves, and they want to get into insurable employment again. What is the—I will not say fate—but what is the trap that is actually laid for these people when they are forced to come back and seek insurable employment? The Minister of Health lays it down in his Bill that they must have been in continuous employment for 104 weeks and must have made 104 contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2716.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-01", "file": "debates1925-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "803c36ff86a9a3d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2756.0", "colnum": "2756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are they in your party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "ot been able to complete their apprenticeship, but their families will be equally in need, and I hope from that point of view the Minister will give some consideration to this point. Another point you will find in other industrial centres is this: There are large numbers of young men from 19 to 21 years of age who have never been able to get into industry at all during the last four or five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-01a.2756.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2792.1", "colnum": "2792", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEDITIOUS PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman think that these intrigues are eating into the vitals of industry at the present time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2792.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2844.6", "colnum": "2844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "The fact remains that last night we wasted an hour and a-half of valuable time on a Motion of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2844.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2844.6", "colnum": "2844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are helping to do it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "s my opinion, and it is the opinion of many other hon. Members. I wish to say also that there was not a single Member on the Liberal Benches in the early hours of this morning, whilst we have been giving close attention all this week to these discussions and trying to carry into effect a very valuable social reform. Are we now to be called upon to spend another hour this afternoon in wasting time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2844.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2846.2", "colnum": "2846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Asleep!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I did not make any such reference at all. I only wish they were so distinguished. Those of us who are happy in our ignorance, always want to know something, and during these Debates, so far as I have been able to attend to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2846.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2846.2", "colnum": "2846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " want you to remember that we are not here for fun. When it comes to the final analysis the people who will have to foot the bill are not the people who are talking sympathetically, but the people who produce the wealth of the country—the workers. When the final bill has to be footed, it is Phil Garlick who will have to foot it. We want to know where we are. You can tell us but you will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2846.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2848.0", "colnum": "2848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "tant legislative proposition. One Bill is in progress, and the other is in the cradle, waiting to be adopted, but Dr. Barnardo has not arrived and Dr. Bodie is on the opposite benches. So far as we are concerned, we claim that we have no right to be asked to buy a pig in a poke, and that we have a right to know where we are going to be committed and what the financial commitments of this Bill are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2857.1", "colnum": "2857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "t a later stage, and the treatment we have received makes it necessary to say at this stage what our objections are. I resent very much the suggestion that I am speaking from a brief, as if I were saying that in which I do not believe myself. I have always in this House fought for the liberty of the individual against the tyranny of the official. I do not believe in that kind of servile Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2887.2", "colnum": "2887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or some night!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "4) is not dealing with a case in which mother and child have been separated at all. It has nothing to do with the separation of mother and child, nor is it dealing, as the late Solicitor-General seems to have thought, with the case in which anybody has decided that the widow is to be deprived of her pension. There are provisions in Clause 21 of the Bill, which I hope we shall reach some day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2887.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2897.0", "colnum": "2897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "preceding_text": "ne to them against their will. I agree with the last speaker that it is quite possible a committee might spend his money better than he spends it himself, and I will admit that I am quite certain a committee could spend my money better than I do it myself and probably more quickly, but that is not the point. The point is that we should not try to spend other people's money even for their own good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2919.1", "colnum": "2919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "d them because they were not giving open spaces. The last speaker indicted them on various scores, all of which I agree with. I want to indict them on a thing that I think of even greater gravity. One of the most famous characteristics of the city I represent is that the whole population are good footballers and attend football matches regularly. We can always beat England at Association Football.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2919.1", "colnum": "2919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " told him of this personal grievance, he said there was nothing wrong; that it was quite right. Imagine in the tramway cars if every porter in connection with the London County Council put empty boxes in the seats in order that their pals could travel and get a preference over the general public. Why should the hotel porter be able to come along and monopolise seats by placing empty boxes in them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2925.0", "colnum": "2925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is the 200,000 a recent figure and is the figure going up or down?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATKINSON", "preceding_text": "sufficient land for the carrying out of that building scheme if somebody else was going to carry it out. With that I think there is nothing more to be said on the depot point, except that it may interest the House to know that 200,000 tons of coal pass through there in a year, and some 20,000 tons of other traffic, and it would be a very serious undertaking to attempt to move that depot elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2938.0", "colnum": "2938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "Surely the railway company could give it in the case of a place as far away as Glasgow. One would not suggest, possibly, there should be tourist tickets from Brighton to London, or anything like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2939.1", "colnum": "2939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "hose who can assist us on the benches on this side on this occasion. I am very sorry that this very important Bill should have come before the House at a time when most of the Members have gone home, because they are tired and used up. This is a Bill which ought to have been submitted to the House when the House was able to go into it, for it requires the very best brains that the House possesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2939.1", "colnum": "2939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " represent the railway companies have used that great inheritance in order to enrich themselves at the expense of the community. I want to prove what I have stated. I know Members are not all shareholders in railway companies, and I believe there are some Members who are prepared, if we can prove to them honestly that our contentions are correct, to support us on the floor of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2940.1", "colnum": "2940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "of the carriages belonging to this particular company—I refer to the hon. Member for Paisley (Mr. R. Mitchell) and the hon. Member for Tradeston (Mr. T. Henderson). They were travelling in a railway compartment in the night time when the carriage door flew open, and the train had to be stopped. That was made right, but they had not gone very much further when another carriage door flew open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-02", "file": "debates1925-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "dbd7769f1d0d637b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2942.1", "colnum": "2942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "were necessary, to a lot of thickheads in this country that those men are capable. They would not concede anything to them, but what do you think they did concede? They gave that concession that I appealed for to those who were going to play golf. They refused to give us any assistance to help us over this difficulty that we are in in this terrible crisis through which we are passing on the Clyde.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-02a.2942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-03", "file": "debates1925-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d4e58d660459180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.2987.2", "colnum": "2987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that we have not made the matter clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.2987.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-03", "file": "debates1925-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d4e58d660459180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.2989.2", "colnum": "2989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ng like the chance of a man of 50 or 45 of getting employment. The mere fact that I was over 60 would penalise me. This is one of the little provisos, of small account on paper, but very hard when we apply them, that the Minister might take out of the Bill. At present a man of 70 gets an old age pension willy-nilly. When this scheme is in full operation will he be denied what a man of 70 gets now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.2989.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-03", "file": "debates1925-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d4e58d660459180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.3008.0", "colnum": "3008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, 26 for 39.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.3008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-03", "file": "debates1925-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d4e58d660459180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.3013.2", "colnum": "3013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "obligations to meet, and I am only asking him to extend the period in which he will be meeting the obligations under the Bill, otherwise than out of the contributions, from January, 1926, until January, 1928. The necessary money, of course, would be provided by the Government, and I think, speaking without any statistical knowledge or actuarial support on the subject, that the contributions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.3013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-03", "file": "debates1925-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d4e58d660459180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.3018.0", "colnum": "3018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": " of the Amendment. I recognise, however, the very great difficulty that the Government have in adopting the suggestion which has been made. Before I sit down I hope to make another proposal, which is not new I know, but which is of great importance to the Government, and which perhaps they will think over before the Report stage of this Bill. I do not wish to detain the Committee at length —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.3018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-03", "file": "debates1925-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d4e58d660459180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.3031.2", "colnum": "3031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "esent the hon. Member, but he and the Committee will agree with me that the correction which he has made does not lessen the weight of my argument that the wages which the agricultural labourer receives in many parts of the country, in Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and many parts of the West, make it impossible for him to bear this additional burden. Here we are. We have these various—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.3031.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-03", "file": "debates1925-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d4e58d660459180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.3033.5", "colnum": "3033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "I know that debate is to take place on Tuesday, but may I point out that the Debate on this Amendment and any Debate on the Unemployment Bill are closely inter-related and connected. We may be deficient on this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-03a.3033.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "In the case of West Ham, we have been told that we are paying more than we ought to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "In the case of West Ham, we have been told that we are paying more than we ought to pay. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"] The hon. Member has said that the Department have no scale themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.37.9", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "Is it a fact that one of the conditions laid down is that the maximum for a married man with a family shall be not more than 45s., while some guardians may give 70s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.37.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNL1FFE - LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you take March?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNL1FFE - LISTER", "preceding_text": "hings were 1,932,000 tons, and the launchings in other countries were 1,393,000 tons. If you take 1924, the launchings in the United Kingdom were 1,440,000 tons, and in other countries 804,000 tons. If you take the figure of the tonnage buiding in March of this year, it was 1,165,000 tons in the United Kingdom and 1,232,000 tons in the rest of the world. Therefore, that shows that we are receding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.79.3", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "of any country. It is not only the direct trade we do with Europe or the East, we depend indirectly, upon the further trade which the East has been able to do with the countries of Europe. Therefore, it is a right and a sound policy to take the long view that this country should always work for stability and the restoration of the normal conditions in every country. Undoubtedly that is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.79.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": " and so forth, would spring up in a few years' time, enormously improving the trade of this country. I quite agree with my right hon. Friend that we are better occupied in developing territories that are under our own control, territories where we have law and order in our own hands, than countries over which we have no control, where we cannot interfere, and whose finances we cannot put in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": " we are now, there is no reason why we should not again advance to prosperity. That is why I, personally, should be willing to adopt somewhat unortho- dox methods in order to stimulate our trade over this temporary depression. You cannot, of course, keep a nation on tonics for ever, but, when you are depressed, and when things are going to get better, you sometimes find a little tonic very useful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "f-a-century ago. You are cultivating 25 per cent. less arable land and producing 25 per cent. less than you did then. So you have this position, that you are increasingly importing your foodstuffs while you have an increasing depletion on the land, and you also have this fact, that you are increasing your imports of manufactured goods and you have a growing percentage of unemployment in our midst.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The three years' average!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "ster in this respect. I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on a very important speech. I congratulate him also on his optimism, which, I hope, I share. I believe this country is not played out. I believe our producing industries are not doing so badly as it would seem. They are, at any rate, making very good Income Tax returns which would seem very altruistic of them if they are doing so badly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: He is a good deal luckier than we are here in London anyhow.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "tainly give some employment to the ships which will have to carry it overseas. The reason it is possible to sell British coal in these three ex-German ports, and sell it with a profit, is that it is more reliable than the German coal, and that those who sell it do so on such an honest basis that the German knows what he is buying. He is not so sure of the coal which he buys from his own dump heap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "at unless they are given a chance to compete, which they have not got at the present time. Therefore, I do feel that this Committee has a right to demand some proper and adequate information from the Government on this matter. There is one other point I want to raise. I have listened throughout the whole of this Debate, and I should feel far more satisfied if we had some definite remedy laid down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Can the hon. Member name one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member has any suggestions to make like that to increase collateral security, by all means let him press them upon the Government, because there are many industries in this country which would have a new lease of life if they had an opportunity of extended credit to Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " to power, to have a Royal Commission to inquire into the causes of the rise in the cost of food, and the remarkable discrepancy which exists in many cases between the price obtained by the producer of food and the price paid by the consumer; and I will guarantee this, that if. as a result of the inquiry, it is discovered that any practical steps can be taken to cure these ills, we will take them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " at the Albert Hall Victory meeting? May I remind the representatives of the Board of Trade— I expect they were there listening at the Albert Hall on the 4th December—of what the Prime Minister said? He said: We may have to force a way through the jungle of interests but we have behind us in that magnificent recruitment of young members sufficient driving force to put anything through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "tedly and taking the necessary powers to deal with it, they are setting up another dud council in which they will be able to lose altogether the complaints which are received from time to time. Someone said just now, \"What about co-operative societies as a vested interest?\" I have yet to learn that nearly 5,000,000 of people who combine to save themselves middleman's profits are a vested interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They pay no Income Tax.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "tions in this country the only organisation acting as a bulwark to the consumer is the people who are in business for themselves, who save themselves the profits of the rest of the trading community. Let us compare, for example, the practice of co-operative societies with the private trader. They first limit the wages of capital, and after that return the balance to the worker and to the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "I could if I had notice of the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-06", "file": "debates1925-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "121bd17d54b7b60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "preceding_text": "We have watched the operations of this Fund, and whatever may be said as to the Sankey Fund we certainly approve of the payments out of the Fund, and its use for the benefits of the miners. On the owners' side we have watched the development of the Fund, and seen its administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-06a.193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "yond that he is really then much more in the position of a man who goes into shop and asks to be supplied with goods on credit. He says to the shopkeeper, \"I am a solvent person; I am a person of substance and of character, but I cannot pay you the money at once. I need the goods, and I will pay for them afterwards.\" That is, I think, an exact comparison with the person who needs extended benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Even although spread over six weeks?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "The answer is quite distinctly yes. Supposing a person be unemployed Tuesday, and Thursday, and Monday of next week, that is three days: supposing that he waited for five weeks and was then unemployed on a Wednesday, Friday and Tuesday, those two groups of three days would be added together and would form a proper waiting period, and satisfy the Regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "or stating it. The whole system under the Act of last year is to come to an end on the 30th June, unless some further Measure be passed before then. But if we are to make a fresh start on the 30th June, it is quite clear there are other duties which have to be done before that. I have heard complaints from the other side of the House, and in papers I have read, as to the administration of the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.263.5", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We all agree to that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I have the right hon. Gentleman with me in that ease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.263.5", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I have the right hon. Gentleman with me in that ease. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We all agree to that.\"] Then we are all agreed that there are some people, as has been stated, who have been too easily getting benefit, while other people who should have had benefit, as has been said, are not getting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rabbits!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ng number of unemployed persons and their dependants to seek assistance from the Poor Law, will throw an added burden upon local authorities already heavily in debt. In rising to move the Amendment which stands in my name, and that of several of my hon. Friends, I want to congratulate the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Labour on producing the first concrete proposal to deal with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\" and \"Have a try!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ue, not to irresponsible men, but to men sometimes of Cabinet rank. During the time of the late Government, I remember the Home Secretary himself writing an article which showed his keen imagination. He made statements that had not a basis of fact. In fact, were I not to credit him with imagination, I should have had to describe his article by two short English words that would be unparliamentary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "e is a great deal of fraud under the Unemployment Insurance Act, and if in the spirit of the same kind of class struggle, class war if you like, we were to try to libel people belonging to other classes we could quite easily say that, because there are a certain number of divorce cases among the aristocracy, the aristocracy is frankly and rankly immoral. We should have just the same justification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "I am very much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for his explanation, and it certainly does ease the situation a little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "LABOUR MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ficult it was and failed, which, I think, was an interesting point of view coming from a Socialist. There is nothing too much that any Government could do to help him over that ghastly time. I myself have seen men unemployed for years who have spent every penny of their saving rather than go on to what they call the \"dole.\" We have another lot of people in the country that have never been in work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ery popular to say, but I will say it. I know, and hon. Gentlemen opposite know, we have had cases in the country, I do not say often, but cases where a woman marries, and her husband is in work and she decides to go to work. too. That is all very well, but if her husband has a regular wage to support her, and she afterwards applies for the dole, I do not think any section of the House wants that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "preceding_text": "#8212;I think under that Act the contribution of the workman was 4d. and of the employer 5d. Now we have seen it grow under further Acts of Parliament, and we have now got, to my mind, the impossible position of 9d. from the workman and l0d. from the employer. I venture to remind hon. Gentlemen opposite about how much we have heard from them recently on the Pensions Bill being a tax upon industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "preceding_text": "and I think the Government are making a great step forward in bringing up this Bill—as will be seen when it is fairly and honestly examined —to relieve the great load resting upon trade and the men who are in work. The hon. Member for St. Helens said that, including their sickness benefit contributions and trade union contributions, men at present are paying something like 18d. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Steal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "It is no use the Minister shaking his head. If you are going to refuse these people unemployment benefit where are they going to have the benefit? They can only get it from the parish council or the board of guardians or starve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And no worse! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "s to be dealt with as if the unemployment were merely sporadic unemployment. Then I come to the other industries in which the unemployment is sporadic, dependant on various minor stages. In these cases I think it only right that the industry should support those persons who are out of employment. There is one further fact. Human nature is no better in the labouring classes than in any other class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": " who are not entitled to it. There-tore, I should prefer those industries in which the unemployment may be termed sporadic to be put upon the local rates, and not upon the State. I suggest that for this reason. In reference to the contributions which come from the public it makes very little difference to the taxpayer as a whole whether they are what is called borne by the State or by the locality", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member must be mistaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.349.6", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It provided something else!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "The position is a very difficult one and when the Labour party's Bill was before Parliament dealing with decasualisation of the dock labourer it provided that they should be taken out of unemployment insurance altogether. It was promoted by the hon. Member for St. Helens (Mr. Sexton) and other people well known on the unemployment insurance question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.349.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.353.5", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "preceding_text": " or indirectly by enabling other members of the family to maintain them whilst out of work—there is, I say, scope for inquiry with a view to inducing those who are out of work to adopt a more reasonable frame of mind in taking up existing vacancies. If hon. Members opposite will be so good as to allow speakers on this side to continue without persisting in that continual interruption —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.353.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£6,500,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "If the unemployed are going to be in the: same position as they are now, will the hon. Gentleman explain how he is going to save the £5,000,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-07", "file": "debates1925-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "3109a5f875404a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I regret to to say —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-07a.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.443.9", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "hope the Government will see whether something cannot be done to counter that move and enable our commercial men to compete with anyone they have to face in foreign countries. I have said to some commercial men, \"What about the export credit scheme; why cannot you use that machinery?\" and they tell me that it is much too costly, that what with the bank rate and the charges made by that Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.443.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Member what they have done. The workers in America receive about three times the pay of the workers in this country. In the next place, there is no Labour party in the House of Representatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you come here?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "ey appoint a director on the board of directors, and they have a direct share in the management of the business, which I think is quite right, and this leads to the co-operation of the best brains in the industry. If you ask any trade unionist leader in America if he wishes to be mixed up in the politics of the country he will say most emphatically \"No!\" because they shun politics like the plague.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why talk about it'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "I can only say that a company has been formed to set up such a plant for Nottingham. That plant has not yet been installed, because the preliminary negotiations are still going on. The capital has not yet been subscribed, and that is exactly how the matter stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four days!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "preceding_text": "I agree that that is bad enough, but we gain nothing by overstating the case. The problem, however, is bigger than that. I am not so much concerned with the numbers on the live register of unemployment. In addition to the men unemployed, you have in the mining districts the majority of miners working short time. It is fair to say that the vast majority are not work-ins; more than five days a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. REES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. REES", "preceding_text": " the agreement of 1924 the cost of production rose by 104.69 per cent., compared with 1913. I will now give the wages cost. The wages cost in 1913 was 6s. 10½. In 1924 it was 12s. 4¼d. After the operation of the agreement of 1924 it went up to 13s. 6¾d. So that, after the 1924 agreement, the cost of labour for the same output was increased by 97.2 per cent. over the figure for 1913.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "Yes, so that to that extent the trade of Germany has not decreased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the new countries?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "as I know the state of affairs, the situation as regards Russia. I believe any colliery owner from whom coal was purchased before would be glad to sell, but, so far as my information goes, Russia is not importing coal from outside; she is using partly oil, partly timber, and partly bringing up coal from Danzig. But there was no unwillingness of any sort to sell, had a customer been willing to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many are there of you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "That shows how much hon. Members care for the mining industry", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What do you care?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "That shows how much hon. Members care for the mining industry [HON. MEMBERS: \"How many are there of you?\"] What do you care about the mining industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why do they waste time with them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "nd energetic men they are, and how determined they are to work to their utmost; but if they are merely asked to work longer hours and to take less money I do not think we can expect to have peace in the coal industry. I hope profoundly that the owners are not going to stand exactly by the terms which they have set out in the newspapers. I do not believe for one moment that such is their intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "I have stated, to find the capital which will be required for the provision of work in this country. It cannot be done Our population is something like 460 to the square mile. The teeming millions of India, of which we hear much, are only 180 to the mile, and in Australia and Canada the population is something like two persons per mile. We have to face the fact that this country is over-populated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "very move made for greater production means a reduction in the standard of living. I do not believe that statement for a moment. The standard of living in Great Britain is, possibly, higher than anywhere else in the world, except perhaps America. What we all want to do is not only to maintain that standard, but to improve it if we can do so. It can only be done if we produce more and consume less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMILLIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Christian country!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMILLIE", "preceding_text": "representative of the colliery owners or of the Federation of British Industries to point to any bankruptcies or failures in the coal industry at this time, and yet for months and months collieries have been shut down. I believe it is part of a plan to reduce the mining community down to a point of starvation at which they will be forced at any time to accept what the employers care to offer them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. HUDSON", "preceding_text": " he promised them a square deal. I believe I am correct in saying that the output went up in those pits 1,000 tons per week. I do not say—it would be very absurd to argue from the particular to the general—that that would necessarily follow in every case. I quote it, however, as an example of what it is possible to do provided you get decent relations between employers and the workmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "tween masters and men, I suggest that it would be useful on his part, if he could try and influence some of his fellow employers, and it would be a real advantage and a service to the community, if he could endeavour to secure a better feeling between employers and employed. That seems to me to be a thing that everyone ought to be doing instead of hon. Members, or others, going about as agitators.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Ax HON. MEMBER: \"Assist his passage.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "them. It has been suggested from the other side that one way of dealing with this problem of unemployment in the mining industry would be by sending some of the surplus population from these islands. I agree that we could do with deporting some people from these shores. I have no objection, from the mining point of view, to the emigration of the Duke of Northumberland, and a few more of that type.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "try, and one of the reasons is that practically half the income of the country is paid to those who lent their money to the country when the sovereign was value 6s. 8d., and we are still paying them approximately £1,000,000 per day as interest. We will help if members wish to reduce taxation in that direction. I do not want to say a single word which will make more difficult any negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Our output is bigger!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": "any, 17s. 4d. compared with 18s. 10d. in this country. I ask the Committee to observe the marked difference by which the German wage is lower than the British and at the same time the costs of production in the two countries are very close together, which shows that there cannot be such great inefficiency here, and, after all, Germany admittedly is one of the most efficient countries in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are the royalties in Germany?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": "output is bigger!\"] It is certainly bigger, but that is not an argument against efficiency. Hon. Gentlemen cannot say that the cost of production is low and the output high without admitting that there is a certain efficiency, and they certainly cannot make a general charge of inefficiency. Another proof of the efficiency of the industry is the complaints that are being made as to being undersold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Trustification.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": "trouble in the industry here. But I am going to admit that there are some forms of inefficiency, which I see and much regret. It seems to me that, as between respective coalowners and neighbouring collieries, there is very often an element of competition, which is wry undesirable, going on, to a certain extent, now. We also see, among some of the great collieries, a voluntary unification going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your own benches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "lem that one might expect, seeing it is a very grave problem. I quite believe with the Secretary for Mines that the problem is a very grave one indeed. Any further dislocation of the industry would be a fatal thing for unemployment, not only for the industry but the country at large. I want to suggest that if there is not more interest shown in the industry by hon. Members on the other side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (COAL INDUSTRY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "ry grave one indeed. Any further dislocation of the industry would be a fatal thing for unemployment, not only for the industry but the country at large. I want to suggest that if there is not more interest shown in the industry by hon. Members on the other side—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your own benches?\"]—I am certainly speaking within the recollection of the House when I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "ans. I think it is very important to-day, looking at the schemes that local authorities are to undertake, to ask whether the scheme could be recast in any way, so as to make it apply to as large a number of local authorities in this country as possible. I do not do more at this stage than raise this issue, because it is not proposed in any way to oppose this Bill from this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-08", "file": "debates1925-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "25c9372137a22a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A public utility company!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "l centres in Great Britain. Why cannot we have the same consideration as this private company is going to receive? We do not ask to be relieved of our capital responsibilities; all we ask is a loan, and we are willing to pay 6 per cent. as far as we are able. These people are able to pay and are not going to pay, and we are going to pass an Act to-night giving the right to a private company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-08a.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-09", "file": "debates1925-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b95c4704bb749b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-09a.609.4", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIR SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Russians!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the Germans and Australians have relinquished their extra-territorial rights and have not suffered in consequence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-09a.609.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-09", "file": "debates1925-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b95c4704bb749b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-09a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "2;an epitome of the people. India made them whatever they are, and elected them. One M.L.A. counts for more than 20 patriots on the Subjects Committee of the Congress, and he knows it, and the Viceroy knows it, and we know it, and it is time that Indian Nationalists knew it and planned accordingly. 8.0 P.M. I was very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that contribution he made to the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-09a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-09", "file": "debates1925-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b95c4704bb749b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-09a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GEOFFREY BUTLER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only the political!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GEOFFREY BUTLER", "preceding_text": "if I might put forward still another suggestion, which is this, that I think I am right in saying in the old days you did not confine your recruiting for the Indian Civil Service to the young men and to examination, but there was some system of transference—I think I am right in saying—from the Indian Army, and that certain of the best public servants in India were brought in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-09a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-09", "file": "debates1925-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b95c4704bb749b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-09a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "ee ought to realise from the very fact that we never do consider India when we are taking these large electoral steps, it is necessary to be more cautious in the attitude we take towards India on such occasions as this. There is an old platitude that the people deserve the kind of government they get. That may be true of a democratic country, but I do not think we can apply that doctrine to India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-09a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-09", "file": "debates1925-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b95c4704bb749b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-09a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "preceding_text": "his Bill. It is a most useful and desirable Bill, but I wish to make one appeal to the Government. This is a Bill of considerable importance, and the question raised by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Moss Side (Mr. Hurst) is a very important one, and there is far more in it than would appear from the short discussion. This Bill was brought on after Eleven o'Clock for its Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-09a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-09", "file": "debates1925-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "3b95c4704bb749b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-09a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAWLINSON", "preceding_text": "ish to make one appeal to the Government. This is a Bill of considerable importance, and the question raised by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Moss Side (Mr. Hurst) is a very important one, and there is far more in it than would appear from the short discussion. This Bill was brought on after Eleven o'Clock for its Second Reading. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] We had two days only in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-09a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-10", "file": "debates1925-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "bceaf6cbd42aefba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-10a.820.2", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the hon. and gallant Member. He certainly told me, when I came into the House about five minutes ago, that he was going to raise this question, and I tell him, perfectly frankly, that I am not going to say much about it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-10a.820.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-10", "file": "debates1925-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "bceaf6cbd42aefba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-10a.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": " be led away for electoral and petty party advantage, and endeavour each to outbid the other in giving to the public what is neither good for them nor any great advantage to the country. Therefore, I would suggest for consideration among all parties, and also for the consideration of the Civil Research Committee, that they might consider putting back the taxes upon drink to what they were in 1923.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-10a.825.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-07-13", "file": "debates1925-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d9d9133629cb01a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-13a.846.14", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "That they ought to be sent to the West Ham Board of Guardians —that is what he said. It is not the first time he has made these insinuations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-13a.846.13"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-13", "file": "debates1925-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d9d9133629cb01a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-13a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. LANE-MITCHELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. LANE-MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "If a woman is married, say, to a husband who is not now insured, surely he can get insured, and then she gets the benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-13a.938.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-13", "file": "debates1925-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d9d9133629cb01a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-13a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "ft destitute and cast upon charity although the deaths of their bread winners have been caused by circumstances which in no sense differ from the circumstances in which the officer may die. An officer and a man may be killed in exactly the same mishap; the widow of the officer will get a pension while the widow of the man gets nothing. I know an officer's widow cannot demand a pension as of right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-13a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-13", "file": "debates1925-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "3d9d9133629cb01a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-13a.1010.2", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "preceding_text": "er the Army or the Navy desire any charity on the part of the Government. I have had something to do, in fact a good deal, with the contributory scheme which was suggested before this Bill was brought in, and the men of the Navy were perfectly willing and ready to subscribe for their own insurance and advantage. I am absolutely persuaded that the men of the Navy and the Army do not desire charity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-13a.1010.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-14", "file": "debates1925-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "91c7458c86fac676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1106.2", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will you vote for it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "uld have a statement from the Minister in order to let these people know what an immense burden this ex gratia payment to thorn would mean. We must recognise that the whole of the payments to the existing widows and orphans are acts of grace and are not pensions paid of right because of contribution;. I move the Amendment, although under the circumstances I do not expect the Minister to accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1106.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-14", "file": "debates1925-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "91c7458c86fac676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the cruisers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "rnoon in connection with this Amendment. The Mover of the Amendment gave justifiable reasons for this step to be carried through. He knows that there are a large number of widows over the age of 50, especially in the present economic conditions, who are extremely hard hit. It does no good coming here to talk about these hard cases and then doing nothing further. We are told there is not the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1109.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-14", "file": "debates1925-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "91c7458c86fac676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1222.3", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "It may be that paragraph ( f ) is wide enough to meet the difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-14", "file": "debates1925-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "91c7458c86fac676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1222.3", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be rude!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "It may be that paragraph ( f ) is wide enough to meet the difficulties. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"] If hon. Members will remain quiet, I think they will have no difficulty in hearing what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-14", "file": "debates1925-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "91c7458c86fac676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Singapore!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "A point arises here which ought to be made a little more clear than it is. There is the case of the worker employed in a Government dockvard. He may be sent out to Malta or Hong Kong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-14", "file": "debates1925-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "91c7458c86fac676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1234.0", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. BECKETT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wise enough?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "ore than any other party, to have a duty towards these men; and that is quite right. You sent them out to fight; we did not, and it is your duty, at least as much as it is ours, to look after them when they come home. Yet you deliberately propose to penalise the dependants of the men who served you, at a very cheap rate, in favour of people who were wise enough to stay at home in comfortable jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-14", "file": "debates1925-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "91c7458c86fac676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "or £5,000,000 stand in the way? It did not stand in the way when you wanted boys for the Army. Then, money was no object, but now, when it comes to giving these women what they are entitled to, you say \"No.\" You say to these women: \"Because you have already got 5s. per week for the loss of your boy, we are only going to give you 5s. and steal the other 5s. to which you are entitled from you.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-14", "file": "debates1925-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "91c7458c86fac676", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1243.2", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reply to the Amendment!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " an insurable employment. But by reason of the fact that he has kept up his contributions, 4½d. a week, he is considered to have been in insurable employment while he has been in the Army. If he dies, his widow and family would be entitled to the full benefits of the Bill. A. man who enters the insurance at the age of 25 would have to pay 1s. 4½d., according to the actuarial arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-14a.1243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1323.0", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "our share of the benefits. When, however, it wants to say that this is a charity organisation, it says, \"It is not insurance at all.\" Let us look at the argument. Who pays for the Workmen's Compensation benefit? Not the State, not at all. I will take the legal aspect, not the economic aspect. Who pays for the Workmen's Compensa- tion benefit to the children? The employer. It is his responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1327.0", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seventy-five per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "preceding_text": " shall go to the children. There has been payment for it, and the payment has been made, technically, by the employer, but everybody knows that in one form or another the men contribute their share to the payment for that provision. I should think that it may be about fifty-fifty as between the owner and the men. At least, the men pay a very large proportion of the cost of securing that insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1328.0", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Neville Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ill-health!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Neville Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "guished between the National Health Insurance Act which he says is true insurance, and this Bill which he describes as \"tomfoolery.\" The right hon. Gentleman knows very well what is in the National Health Insurance Act and he quoted the relevant section himself. But he gave a most astounding account of what the purpose of the National Health Insurance Act was. He said it dealt solely with disease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1329.2", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Member will allow me to finish making my point. I have read the words from the Act. It confers benefits on those incapable of work, whether the incapacity is caused by disease or general ill-health or bodily or mental disablement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1330.0", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Disablement!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "ent by accident and disablement by disease is not made in the National Health Insurance Act, I must ask the indulgence, of the Committee to read what is said by Section 10 which my right hon. Friend has just quoted. In defining sickness benefit it says: Periodical payments whilst rendered incapable of work by some specific disease or by bodily or mental disablement. That does not include accident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1344.0", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "The object of the words to which the hon. Member takes objection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1345.4", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "ually it is the decision of the Court which arranges what the amount is to be, and, surely, that date ought to give the Ministry sufficient time to conduct their business. It is bad enough when they take action after they know what the orphans have been awarded by the Court, but, presumably, they want to take action immediately they hear that the man is dead, even before the case comes into Court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1345.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1390.4", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": " far as may appear necessary or expedient for carrying the order into effect: And then, at the end, the Minister has these powers conferred for about 18 months, which means that the Minister may do anything in connection with this Bill as soon as it becomes an Act. He may raise the contributions if he wishes. He may diminish the benefits if he wishes. He can wipe out any Amendment we have carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1390.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1413.0", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "We have had some very hard things said about ourselves and about this Clause by the hon. Member for West Nottingham (Mr. Hay-day). He has spoken of our hard, cruel, harsh, unkind conduct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1413.0", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " have had some very hard things said about ourselves and about this Clause by the hon. Member for West Nottingham (Mr. Hay-day). He has spoken of our hard, cruel, harsh, unkind conduct. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Hon. Members may say \"Hear, hear,\" but one wonders whether the real object of the speech was conveyed in the concluding remarks, when he said that he wanted the people outside to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If he continues to employ him and not otherwise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. There is no question of compelling anybody to retire and there is no question of increasing contributions. I was proceeding to explain that the employer will continue after the man is 65 to pay the same contributions as he did before,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1416.0", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Even the Attorney-General!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "preceding_text": "f work, surely he has the right to claim the full measure of unemployment benefit when that happens? I cannot see how any private insurance company could possibly justify the breaking of a bargain which has been entered into previously by saying we will give you some other policy which we think is as good for you, but which was not in the bargain. It may be desirable for everybody to retire at 65.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1417.0", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": " that the other benefits which he should receive we are going to take from him. We would not stoop to that. I would appeal to the right hon. Gentleman and those on the Front Bench to consider this and see if they are not rather riding for a fall. They suggest that we may tell the country. The country will know. Working people are not quite as ignorant or foolish as they used to be a few years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1417.0", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "ad the whole thing about you years ago. As we have stood in the breach so long, and now the State itself is attempting in a very stinted manner to do something, do not let it be said that the most powerful Government for years has sunk to this position of giving wealth to the wealthy, and a few weeks later, when professing to give something to the class which we have the honour to represent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1417.0", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "ach so long, and now the State itself is attempting in a very stinted manner to do something, do not let it be said that the most powerful Government for years has sunk to this position of giving wealth to the wealthy, and a few weeks later, when professing to give something to the class which we have the honour to represent—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—it is true: we do represent them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1473.3", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "preceding_text": "Angina pectoris , which hon Members know is a disease which may—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1483.4", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " details of the new Unemployment Insurance Bill which has just been introduced, but it will have a certain effect on the situation as was mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman on a previous Amendment. But when all allowance is made for the activities of the Government in searching the pockets of the unemployed in order to replace some of the money paid by the employers it still remains true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1483.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-15", "file": "debates1925-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d2cc9cfb318d3beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOODMAN ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOODMAN ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "( seated and covered ): On a point of Order. Is an hon. Member opposite in order in describing hon. Members on this side of the Committee as \"Red Indians\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-15a.1497.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1506.0", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman not even see that, without knowing the name, it would be possible to undermark or over-mark according to the political colour of the person asking the question, and is it not most improper in the Civil Service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1506.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1511.0", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKENZIE LIVINGSTONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKENZIE LIVINGSTONE", "preceding_text": "Surely the Minister might decide whether this should be a public or private inquiry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1609.1", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nobody will accept it! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "erence should be entitled to spend upon its Navy for the next five or 10 years a certain proportion of the expenditure on its import and export trade. You can fix the ratio at 2½ per cent. or 2 per cent. or any other per cent., but there could then be no jealousy among the Powers because they would be all spending in exactly the same ratio. I merely put forward the suggestion for this reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1615.5", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ERSKINE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What £70,000,000?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ERSKINE", "preceding_text": "btained for less money. I believe that by pruning the dockyards, pruning the Admiralty, reducing the large number of people at headquarters, we might be able to reduce the actual administrative staff, and therefore save money in that matter. I hope the Government will very seriously consider whether they can in these times continue to present Estimates of £70,000,000 every year to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1615.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1617.2", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And from others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to hare the answer from the Noble Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1617.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1618.1", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a withdrawal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "I accept the hon. and gallant Gentleman's withdrawal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1618.5", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "he situation. I hope if the First Lord will heed not so much the criticism from the Opposition he will have regard to the criticism from his own benches, and the suggestion that this is the particular moment when we can stay our expenditure with regard to armaments. Our cruiser outlay is largely experimental, and I see that already criticirms are being made with regard to a ship recently launched.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1618.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1644.0", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENNIS HERBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 1914?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENNIS HERBERT", "preceding_text": "by reason of our trade routes not being properly protected. Hon. Members who have spoken from the Liberal benches to-day have spoken moderately and reasonably, and many things have been said from those benches which are well worthy of consideration; but, unfortunately, in this matter the Liberal party are tainted. Never again will the country trust them where any question of the Navy is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1650.0", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not grow it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "preceding_text": " this position that we of all the people in the world cannot afford to run any risks. A war may arise at any time for causes which at first sight may appear trivial, and if a war does arise, and we have not adequate protection for our trade routes, we are liable to the very dire fate of starvation. We are not like any other country in the world. We have not a month's supply of food in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1650.0", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "preceding_text": "on for our trade routes, we are liable to the very dire fate of starvation. We are not like any other country in the world. We have not a month's supply of food in the country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not grow it?\"] I do not want to go into any vexed question as to why we do not grow it or whose fault it is. The fact is that we do not grow it, and under the present system it is not likely to be grown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1655.3", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral BEAMISH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral BEAMISH", "preceding_text": "lling me that he asked me to be his best man. Honestly speaking, marriage among the more junior officers makes definitely for inefficiency. In saying that I can assure the Committee that I have the backing of a very large number of officers between the age of 25 and 35 years who will agree with me that the general effect of marriage is that the bachelors do the work of the married men in the Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1671.5", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "\"HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "le of the general muddle and incompetence. I think I can suggest a way out. It is in the field of diplomacy that we can look for substantial naval savings. The Washington Conference was abortive. It limited the number of battleships to be built or maintained by the different navies of the world. If it is right to limit the number of battleships, it is equally sound to limit the number of cruisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1671.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1674.0", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "ext week, but for some reason best known to themselves they decided not to wait until we could have an effective Debate, in which the Government could answer any points that they might bring forward, but that they had better raise it now, in order that they might be able to say that the Government had not yet made up their mind. That, I suppose, is the whole point of putting this Vote down to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1676.3", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not make them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": " He raised a further point, which was also raised by other hon. Members, which is certainly deserving of considerable attention and consideration, and that is, the number of the staff at the Admiralty. The suggestion was that a great deal of economy could be effected if the staff wore reduced and the money were spent on shipbuilding. I admit that, like all other Departments, economies can be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1681.3", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CONNOLLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CONNOLLY", "preceding_text": "You have not replied to what we said here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1681.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISEASES OF ANIMALS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I wanted to raise a point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-16", "file": "debates1925-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "bf12ed0f010838e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISEASES OF ANIMALS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I wanted to raise a point. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] I pretest against this conduct, and I am not going to be \"ordered.\" This kind of con- duct is most unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-16a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-17", "file": "debates1925-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f2ef1a71ec795fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1714.3", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": " we have come to the conclusion that a peaceful and amicable settlement is of the very greatest importance, and we agree to accept the compromise which the hon. and gallant Member for North-West Hull (Colonel Lambert Ward) offers. Therefore, so far as I am concerned, if the House be willing to accept that compromise, I myself, so far as it rests with me, should be willing to withdraw my Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-17", "file": "debates1925-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f2ef1a71ec795fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1724.0", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HARRY HOPE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HARRY HOPE", "preceding_text": "untry districts, keep our people living in larger numbers in the rural districts. I make an appeal to the Prime Minister and to the Members of the House to remember that all the compromise we ask for is that about 10 days at the end of September should be cut out of this Summer Time period. Otherwise how can we expect the farmers in Scotland to sow a crop which they have not the chance of reaping?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-17", "file": "debates1925-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f2ef1a71ec795fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1730.0", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "reed policy by which the arable acreage may be maintained and regular employment and adequate wages secured to the agricultural worker. There has been a conference in Scotland, and that conference has turned down any proposal for extending summer time. There has been no common agreement. My charge against the Unionist party is— because it is they who can accept or reject this proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-17", "file": "debates1925-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f2ef1a71ec795fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1730.0", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "o will be introducing into this House the necessary Bill to amend or repeal this Summer Time Act as it will be then. I believe that it is all wrong, and that it is especially against the best interests of agriculture. It is true that this Bill does not compel anybody to get out of bed earlier in the morning. I am prepared to admit that. But the boss can compel the worker to get up an hour earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-17", "file": "debates1925-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f2ef1a71ec795fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1736.0", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "preceding_text": " small, but vocal, opposition, organised on a large scale. Since the Second Reading. I have received many letters in favour of the six months' period, and less than a dozen in opposition to the Bill. The first letter I received in opposition to the Bill was from a lady in the Midlands, who was kind enough to suggest that I was not in my right mind when I seconded the Motion for the Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-17", "file": "debates1925-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f2ef1a71ec795fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1738.0", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "preceding_text": "e by the method of compromise than by fighting everything out to the bitter end. I rose to appeal to the small minority from the North of Scotland. We believed that Scotland was a progressive country, but they are not talking up to their reputation. Scotland has always been a progressive country, but when in a minority they must realise that the senior partner, England, has a voice in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-17", "file": "debates1925-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f2ef1a71ec795fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "ut might I respectfully suggest to you that some English Members, who hold rather strong views on this subject, should also be allowed to express their views on this particular Amendment, which, to my mind, is really the crucial Amendment in the whole discussion to-day? I would like to reinforce the appeal made by the hon. Member for North Paddington (Mr. Perring) for a spirit of sweet compromise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-17", "file": "debates1925-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f2ef1a71ec795fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1744.2", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "I wanted to say that I accepted the Amendment of the hon. and learned Member for East Grinstead (Sir H. Cautley), which is to vote against September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-17", "file": "debates1925-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f2ef1a71ec795fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1745.3", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "If Scotland had her own Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1745.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-17", "file": "debates1925-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "f2ef1a71ec795fa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1745.3", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!''", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "If Scotland had her own Parliament—[ Laughter. ] I repeat, if Scotland had her own Parliament, the question of passing a six-months' summer time Bill would never be discussed there, and it is only, I am sure, because of the ignorance of many hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-17a.1745.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-20", "file": "debates1925-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "0da3c31c9a0f605c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-20a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "he first point that I want to settle and that hitherto I have been unable to settle with the hon. Gentleman and his Friends because they have refused to admit the principle of comparison, the first principle on which alone I will enter into discussion, is that, in considering the question of a general claim for an increase in Post Office wages, regard shall be had to the wages in other industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-20a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-22", "file": "debates1925-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ba5fcd9315071859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-22a.2243.5", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORYPENSIONSBILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at Clause 37; she docs not pay contributions!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "There is another important section whose case has not been met. Take the case of a war widow who has a pension of, say, £l per week for her husband, and who has one child. If she goes to work in an insurable trade, she will have to pay for this benefit for, perhaps, 20 or 30 years, and yet there is no provision in the Bill for that woman to receive benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-22a.2243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-22", "file": "debates1925-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ba5fcd9315071859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-22a.2263.1", "colnum": "2263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORYPENSIONSBILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: 'Any kind of accident?'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "th the passing of the Act of 1911. He left the defence of this Clause mainly in the hands of Mr. McKenna, and, in defending it, Mr. McKenna said: The real and the only issue here is whether a man who is receiving compensation for an accident, no matter who pays the compensation—that is not relevant to the issue in this Clause should at the same time be a charge upon the funds of his society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-22a.2263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-22", "file": "debates1925-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ba5fcd9315071859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-22a.2297.0", "colnum": "2297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORYPENSIONSBILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The point made, that pressure would have to be brought to bear upon decent people to give evidence, is true. Let us put it to ourselves. Would any one of use, if we had any sort of regard for our wife, give evidence against her under any circumstances? I tell the House that nobody would ever get me to give any evidence against my wife. If I did I should in all probability commit perjury wholesale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-22a.2297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-22", "file": "debates1925-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ba5fcd9315071859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-22a.2371.0", "colnum": "2371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORYPENSIONSBILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"YOU have done nothing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ousands of people throughout this country. It is God's truth, and that is the shameful thing about it. Think of the condition of a country where thousands of the people look to a miserable payment of this amount with a sigh of relief! Mark you, we here have not produced that state of affairs in this country. We have not brought Capitalism to such a. state that it cannot stand another penny a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-22a.2371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-22", "file": "debates1925-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ba5fcd9315071859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-22a.2374.2", "colnum": "2374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRIBUTORYPENSIONSBILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "the woman will receive. The other districts will take advantage of the Act, and will give them nothing. The woman will then have to continue her charing work to make up the amount necessary for the maintenance of herself and her children. Really, instead of relief to the people it is an insult to their intelligence. I hope we shall vote against this Bill as a party I, for one, am prepared to do so", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-22a.2374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-23", "file": "debates1925-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c0d4b58d5944cbec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-23a.2548.6", "colnum": "2548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "y), and we may take it as a tribute to the public schools that hon. Members opposite are anxious that pupils from the elementary schools should pass into the public schools. The greatest factor in that public school spirit is the sense of responsibility which is developed. There are many other factors, one of them being the collective influence of the families who send their sons to those schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-23a.2548.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-24", "file": "debates1925-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5078126b7484863b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-24a.2571.6", "colnum": "2571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Now that the Secretary for Scotland is in the House, though he had not the courtesy to be here in time to answer my question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-24a.2571.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-24", "file": "debates1925-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5078126b7484863b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-24a.2574.13", "colnum": "2574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "f the chemicals that it is proposed to restrict or control? Is it that other substances are expected to be discovered, or what is the reason? It may be a perfectly legitimate reason, but the House ought to have it. I am a layman in the matter. I do not even know what dioxy-diamino-arseno-benzol-di-hydrochloride is. I see that it is commonly known as salvarsan. I do not even know what salvarsan is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-24a.2574.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-24", "file": "debates1925-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5078126b7484863b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-24a.2602.0", "colnum": "2602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISEASES OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "tain chemical poisons are circulating in the blood just before it dies? Take the case of a cow buffering from rheumatism, or a cold, or kidney trouble. Are you going to destroy it simply because the blood is not perfectly healthy. If you carry that argument to its logical conclusion, it will mean that you cannot kill an animal for human consumption unless it has an absolutely clean bill of health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-24a.2602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-24", "file": "debates1925-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "5078126b7484863b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-24a.2629.0", "colnum": "2629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TITHE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " are now most generously being placed at the disposal of the public he will be in a better position to appreciate the relative historical merits of the various divisions of the great capital city of Scotland. It is a little under three years since the citizens of Leith were themselves in possession for a short time of the castle, and, I presume, of the building in which this Library is now housed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-24a.2629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-27", "file": "debates1925-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2565f790ffc50fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM (NAVAL EXHIBITS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir MARTIN CONWAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir MARTIN CONWAY", "preceding_text": "at about one-third of the collection cannot possibly be exhibited in the present circumstances; that most important exhibits are stored in the most unfortunate places, between barrels of oil and other inflammable subjects on the one side and heaps of empty boxes on the other side of the storage; that they may at any moment catch fire and that a fire has taken place in the immediate vicinity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-27", "file": "debates1925-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2565f790ffc50fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.34.7", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPECIAL CONSTABLES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of the fact that there are Justices of the Peace who are Members of this House who have been asked this question with regard to the enrolment of special constables?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.34.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-27", "file": "debates1925-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2565f790ffc50fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Both parties?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "\" We took the responsibility of issuing the invitations to that Conference, and we deliberately said, \"We have no policy of our own.\" That did not mean that we were not prepared to put proposals when they came, but we wanted to convey to them that this was to be a free and an unfettered Conference whenever the Dominions would come and exchange views, and hammer out something to meet the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-27", "file": "debates1925-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2565f790ffc50fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whatever Government is in power!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": " really requires to go ahead with. I wish the Minister could see it in his power to place some orders for rolling stock now, so that some engineers could get a little busier. It is possible to look ahead. I have no doubt that he has done it and that there are orders out. I should like to take us on to the year 1950. If Lancashire is in a worse position in 1950 than it is to-day who will be blamed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-27", "file": "debates1925-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2565f790ffc50fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We shall be dead!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "hat some engineers could get a little busier. It is possible to look ahead. I have no doubt that he has done it and that there are orders out. I should like to take us on to the year 1950. If Lancashire is in a worse position in 1950 than it is to-day who will be blamed? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Whatever Government is in power!\"] No, I think we shall have a good share of the blame because we know better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-27", "file": "debates1925-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2565f790ffc50fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "preceding_text": "abides in our mind, because we are trustees not only of their material but of their moral, mental and spiritual welfare. To pay these taxes the poorer natives borrow from those who are less poor, and they have not heard of the bankruptcy law which in our own country is an ever-certain help in time of trouble. The hut tax and the poll tax may involve very great hardship. A man may have three wives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-27", "file": "debates1925-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2565f790ffc50fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three mothers-in-law!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "preceding_text": "tcy law which in our own country is an ever-certain help in time of trouble. The hut tax and the poll tax may involve very great hardship. A man may have three wives. [ Laughter. ] I am afraid that that rather shocks hon. Members opposite in their British innocence, but such things do happen out there. A man may have three wives, and he may have an old mother to support, a mother - in - law…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-27", "file": "debates1925-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2565f790ffc50fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "preceding_text": "e three wives. [ Laughter. ] I am afraid that that rather shocks hon. Members opposite in their British innocence, but such things do happen out there. A man may have three wives, and he may have an old mother to support, a mother - in - law…[HON. MEMBERS: \"Three mothers-in-law!\"] It is part of my case not to exaggerate. He may have also all the old wives of his deceased brothers to support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-27", "file": "debates1925-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2565f790ffc50fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " He ought also to tell us how he views the struggle that is going on there between the planter policy, the policy of hired labour on the big estates, and the policy of encouraging the native producers, as they have been encouragad by another Governor in Uganda. I want to ask the Under-Secretary to make the statement he promised some time ago about this gang who are operating in the Bahama Islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-27", "file": "debates1925-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2565f790ffc50fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Constructive work!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "from that, or from figures of that sort, nor put up that sort of argument in answer to that of the right hon. Gentleman. I do not believe it is worth it. I believe that in facing these questions the one great care should be to be thoroughly objective, to be thoroughly determined to face the facts, and to do the best you can to make the thing work; to do everything you can to help and not to cramp.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-27", "file": "debates1925-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e2565f790ffc50fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1923–24.", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "fore us should be as accurate as possible, and the hon. and gallant Member for Central Hull (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy) made a perfectly reasonable request when he asked for some explanation of the figures in the table which has been given to us. It would show more respect to this Committee if the Admiralty had followed the example of the Air Ministry and had sent some Minister to represent them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-27a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.225.6", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD COUNCIL (NAMES OF MEMBERS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Yes. My hon. Friend will observe that among the Members included is Mr. Orwin, the Director of the Institute for Research in Agricultural Economics at Oxford University.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.225.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.231.4", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "What is it in the officers of the present Government that makes them keep from the subject of the question before them? This carelessness has killed many people. Are the Government going to remain inactive?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.231.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.231.7", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "that we in Scotland have no right to take private proceedings if the Lord Advocate refuses. There is no recourse to the courts for the relations of these people. It is a serious matter, and we want an answer to the question that has been put as to whether the right hon. Gentleman is not prepared to institute proceedings in this matter? Is it because it is a Noble Lord with similar political views?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.231.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the scheme?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": "country we are more humane. In foreign countries they take the line of saying that nystagmus is largely a nervous disease. We are more humane. The matter is receiving very considerable attention, and constant research is going on. There is a scheme now being elaborated between the Home Office and the Mines Department for dealing with this disease, and I hope very shortly that will be in operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about his politics?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "eady had had his application in for three years. In March, 1924, I took the case up again. It had then been under consideration for several years. This gentleman was anxious to go abroad, and only wanted to be naturalised before he went. On 24th March—this was during the Labour Government—I pointed out to the then Home Secretary that it had been engaging attention for some years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " surroundings, he has been indulging in wild and whirling denunciations of the people he is pleased to call the Reds. If he will, when the Vacation comes, quietly think over the work he has done in his Department in the past few months, does he think as the result of all the speeches he has delivered and the action he has taken up to now against the Reds there is one Communist less in the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER RAWSON", "preceding_text": "o have peaceful picketing, and to have trade unions in this country. The Home Secretary, far from exceeding his duties in regard to aliens, has not satisfied some members of his own party. We have not only discontent among aliens throughout the country but we have dis- content stirred up by numbers of this House. I will not say to which side they belong, because it is perhaps sufficiently obvious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.360.2", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Semi-religious!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ow, but their presence proves that the net is not quite as close as the right hon. Gentleman and his friends imagined it was. In that case the action of the right hon. Gentleman was quite wrong. But he not only keeps out that sort of person. I have been trying to find out why certain people in India should not be allowed to come to attend a semi-religious conference in this country and in Holland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.360.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not aliens!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Yes. It is all part of this theory that people are dangerous if they hold views with which you disagree. These people are said to be dangerous because they hold new views of life and the policy which the right hon. Gentleman represents of keeping out aliens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "dy out of a job? It all appeared in the press the other day. I only want equality of treatment for all aliens. If you are going to deal with the pure communist you wart to deal with the pure white. If we are to have one set kept out I want to see all kept out. I am as much against the white Russian propaganda in this country as I would be against any sort of propaganda if I was against any at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do pay for them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "see huge crowds of police keeping back huge crowds of people, looking at weddings and other functions, and I always ask myself—who is paying for them and whose property is being left unprotected while the police are doing this sort of work? Is it not time to ask the people who have these functions to provide a special kind of police for their own special wants and to pay for them themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will alter!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS", "preceding_text": "ming to tell me their troubles and to ask me if I can help them, and I am absolutely lost in admiration at the patience of these people and the magnificent way in which they struggle against adversity. I say, quite frankly, that if I thought Socialism to be a remedy for that state of affairs, I would be a Socialist, but I am convinced that it is not, and that it would only make affaire much worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "We now have a new crime for a man, and it is that 25 years ago he married a Polish girl. Because a man has had the wickedness to write to the relatives he has left behind, and has shown filial devotion, that is an added crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-28", "file": "debates1925-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e6d435ddbbeea722", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "will certainly be spent on British goods. As I was saying, only a relatively small fraction goes to bricks and mortar and land. Therefore, this expenditure is valuable in more than one direction. In the first place, it provides a certain amount of unskilled labour, for those who sometimes to the annoyance of people open up roads and close them again. That is, relatively speaking, unskilled labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-28a.392.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.427.6", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. AGG-GARDNER", "preceding_text": "That is quite untrue. There is no foundation for it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.427.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.472.5", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " being called upon to build these cruisers. Take 10 years. I ask the right hon. Gentleman a second question. Can he conceive of any peril in the Pacific arising in the next 10 years where the United States of America would not be far more involved than we are, on the same side? Why put all this burden at this stage on the poor taxpayers of this country? 5.0 P.M. If it arose I agree with the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.472.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " was an end to any attempt at argument. But that menace has gone, and there was here an admirable opportunity for putting an end to something which is quite a modern innovation. The old admirals never put forward this claim. The great sailors who defended our shores, who founded the Empire by superior seamanship and not by lavish margins, they never put forward this claim. Drake and Hawkins—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "llor of the Exchequer had plenary powers in the matter. What does that indicate? It indicates that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has had to give way because he was not in a position like the First Lord of the Admiralty to threaten to resign, for there was no one who would take him. The house from which he has just come has fallen down; therefore if he left that house he would be without shelter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "preceding_text": "e. It took only 3¾ minutes to sink that battleship. They then bombed the \"Virginia.\" They dropped a 1,100-lb. bomb on the \"Virginia,\" and in eight seconds she was practically a total wreck. I have been asked by the hon. and gallant Member opposite (Sir J. Nail) whether these targets were moving. They were stationary. My critics may ask, Where were the anti-aircraft guns, and were they firing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "re was a demand for putting down expenditure even with such taxation as there was, and the German menace was growing. Within a couple of hundred miles of our shores the German fleet was piling up, and the mind of everyone who took part in the Naval Debates in those days was full of the menace that might come from that fleet. Hon. Members opposite used to speak of war with Germany being inevitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "e with efficiency.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT. 19th March, 1925; col. 2511, Vol. 181.] And yet we learn now with all this naval construction going through, that £500,000 can be taken off the Estimates within four months of their being introduced. The right hon. Gentleman complained, in the course of his speech on that occasion, that if he should economise other Departments should economise, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "alty himself should have effected before he came and told us that he had worked out the Estimates with due regard, careful regard, to economy. The second point is in regard to the absolute necessity for the reduction of dockyards, which I certainly referred to in the speech which I made in the consideration of the Estimates. T am not going to repeat all the arguments which I used on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. FOSTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. FOSTER", "preceding_text": " statement, it may be possible within the Rules of Order to give us some kind of assurance. I appreciate that the particular subject to-day is the cruiser programme. I was cruising about on another subject. In spending this money for a necessary purpose it is some satisfaction to feel that the money of the taxpayer is very much better expended in this way than if expended on the demoralising dole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "e name of Japan falls loosely from the lips of hon. Members in discussions on naval matters, but is that the final word? I suggest the Government are making it perfectly plain by the policy which they are pursuing to-day that whatever group of enemies we may have in the next war, in that group they intend to place Russia, and we are preparing to meet a group of enemies in which Russia is included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.527.0", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What of 1914?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "preceding_text": "bmit to be thrown out of what they regard as their own territory? France would bomb the Riffis. The right hon. Gentleman the ex-Prime Minister pins some of his faith to disarmament. Personally, I do not believe in disarmament. I believe that disarmament has never prevented war in the history of the world, while armament has prevented it. It has kept us a sea peace since 1812—a hundred years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.527.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "ndoubtedly built for the North Sea. In 1917 there was no other thought but the North Sea. She was built for the North Sea. She is a hot ship, an uncomfortable ship, her torpedo tubes do not work, her messes are small and very hot, and her sleeping accommodation is the same. She has confined spaces. There are, I believe, on the ship, 750 men, and 400 men have 15 basins and two tin baths to wash in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.534.2", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WATSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATSON", "preceding_text": "hen he showed, what I have also claimed, that Rosyth is not only the newest but the safest dockyard in Great Britain, and, in addition, is the only dockyard in the country that can take the biggest ships we have in the Navy. So I hope we can have an assurance from the Parliamentary Secretary that there are to be no economies so far as Rosyth is concerned, and that Rosyth is going to be kept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.534.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "sunderstood. That is the actual fact of the position, and I challenge anyone in this Committee to say that it is not correct. The hon. Member for Dunfermline (Mr. W. M. Watson), in whose constituency Rosyth is, has just spoken, and has said that it could not possibly be done away with. I hope Rosyth will be put into cold storage. Two hon. Members for Portsmouth have also spoken, and so it goes on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.544.2", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Air Force!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "They had plenty of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.557.2", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "fire at longer ranges. The German ships had greater speed, and more efficient weapons. The English admiral lost his life by engaging those ships with inadequate British ships. He would have fought the enemy in an open boat if he could have got at them in no other way. Are hon. Members opposite, contrary to the advice of experts of the Admiralty, going into the Lobby to vote against this programme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.560.0", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not last year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " expenditure. The reply of the First Lord probably will be that the Admiralty have given a pledge to carry out certain economies, and that a considerable part, if not the whole of the cost of this building programme, is to be met by economies and reductions in other directions. If those reductions can be made, without impairing the efficiency of the Navy, why, then, have they not been made before?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "naval expenditure of to-day with the naval expenditure of the year before the War. A much more correct comparison would be to compare the naval expenditure to-day with that of 1906, but what were the conditions in 1913 compared with the conditions of to-day? Then you had a European menace. Then you had within striking distance of these shores a great naval Power. Then you had no League of Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-29", "file": "debates1925-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "9c48c8373f31eb67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "s a rather unfair assault upon my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary because he did not follow the practice of some Front Bench speakers and speak for an hour or so. Because his speech was very short and very lucid, they did not like it. He explained everything that was necessary in about 10 minutes, and I am only sorry the example has not been followed. I will try to do my best to follow it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-29a.567.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "n. Friend has been most careful, in suggesting these classes with regard to which he will exercise his discretion, to avoid including those who may fairly be said to suffer the hardships apprehended by the hon. Members opposite. This question has been debated in this House in my hearing, certainly twice or three times, and we have had, of course, a very full discussion of it upstairs in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "d he deplored the fact that this is going to make young men sponge upon their relations. Is that any worse than making them sponge on the Insurance Fund; in other words, making them sponge on their fellow-workers? There is another point. The right hon. Gentleman referred to the young man who could not afford to get married, but if he got married, he would no longer be able to come upon his family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CADOGAN", "preceding_text": "What has that got to do with whether or not this Clause should be passed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "I shall do so. I should like to deal with the explanation given by the Minister. I want to discuss the whole of this Clause. This is the vital Clause in the Bill. Once this Clause is passed, the Bill, so far as we are concerned, is practically dead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel POWNALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel POWNALL", "preceding_text": "ide did not hear anything of the arbitrary cases of discretion referred to by the right hon. Gentleman, and, in view of the fact that, if and when this Bill becomes an Act, the machinery will be similar to that which was in operation last year, I cannot help thinking that these cases of gross hardship of which we hear from hon. Gentlemen opposite are very largely figments of their own imagination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ive in mortal terror with his colleagues, the unemployed would be decently treated. When you talk about these young men sponging, I look at the great places, the palaces, the royal homes of the rich, and I read of Princes touring abroad at the present time, of Kings with their £70,000, and if I had the choice between the poor unemployed and the rich spongers who are in the Royal family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.726.0", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Poor Law!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "eceived the standard benefit were the men with money in their pockets. They were able to go into the shop and pay their money down on the counter for the goods which they ordered from this shopkeeper. But the extended benefit meant that the men had to go to the shop and order things on credit. What is going to become of the poor devils who are not going to get standard benefit or extended benefit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "matters of legislation. I should also like to draw attention to the fact, as I believe it to be, that neither in Committee nor, so far, on the Floor of the House, has the Government made the slightest concession on this Rill to Amendments which have been put forward, both by hon. Members above the Gangway and, more particularly, by my hon. Friend the Member for West Middlesbrough (Mr. T. Thomson).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "preceding_text": "ferent members of the Committee. One objected because he said he would not mind what the Minister did, but he was afraid of the arbitrary action of the public officials. Another said that if he knew that he would be in the hands of the officials of the Department he would not mind, but it was the Minister that he really objected to. Those types of objection about arbitrariness destroy one another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Put them away!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I am speaking, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, of men whom the callous meanness of the Government Bench is going to rob of three days' unemployment pay and thus drive them deeper into the mire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are disgracing them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I am speaking, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, of men whom the callous meanness of the Government Bench is going to rob of three days' unemployment pay and thus drive them deeper into the mire. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Put them away!\"] I will not put them away. In fact I should like to take them to Buckingham Palace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What have you done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "way. In fact I should like to take them to Buckingham Palace. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You are disgracing them!\"] The disgrace is on you who allow men to be driven into starvation like this. These are the men whom you said stood between you and destruction in France, and all you can do for them now is to drive them to destitution. These are the men upon whose breasts these medals were pinned by the King.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "rvation like this. These are the men whom you said stood between you and destruction in France, and all you can do for them now is to drive them to destitution. These are the men upon whose breasts these medals were pinned by the King. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What have you done?\"] I defy any of you to convince these men that you are treating them properly now when the pawnshops are full of these medals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "epeat, in spite of the sneers and jeers of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite, that to pin these medals on the breasts of unskilled labourers, pat them on the back, and tell them what great, fine fellows they were, and then to starve them so that they have to pawn your wretched medals, is, I think, the most mean and despicable conduct that ever the Parliament of any country was ever guilty of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "e death-rate amongst babies under one year old before the War was infinitely higher than it is to-day, and one reason why it has been kept down has been that there has been more generous administration of the Poor Law, and also more generous administration of the Unemployment Insurance Act. But this is all part of a deliberate policy to drive the workman into the position he was in after Waterloo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.795.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " wish they would come out of their homes and do something to make a protest against these infamous conditions which exist to-day when you have the Government assisting the employers all over the country, and in addition helping them to drive the working people down in industry. And this is the Government that promise them full work that the Socialist Government could not give them at higher wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "who will take away from the unemployed part of that they now get. If I were in need, I would take it before I would starve. If it meant fighting, although I am a man of peace, I would fight before I would starve. You are prepared to take these millions from these men, men who do not know where they are going to get the next pair of boots, or whether they can afford a little bit of meat once a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Be reckless for once.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ave to undergo a waiting period. I know that the right hon. Gentleman opposite the Member for Preston (Mr. T. Shaw), my predecessor, is one who does not share my views of careful finance with regard to the Bill. Of course, I may be wrong, but I look to the expenditure that may be caused, and I have to realise that under present conditions the debt on the Bill is likely to be a very serious amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: NO!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " but becomes somewhat monotonous. The purpose of the Amendment is to try to secure some sort of Parliamentary control. If the right hon. Gentleman is going to say that Parliament will meet on 1st October, then I think many of the objections would be met. When he said greater things would occur, and that this House would be invited to consider them, was he giving a pledge that the House would meet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-30", "file": "debates1925-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "68903977383bce49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the waiting period would be abolished altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-30a.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel BURTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel BURTON", "preceding_text": "s in the minds of hon. Members opposite. They seem, as far as I can gather, to presuppose that the Labour Minister will always exercise his rights in a tyrannical manner. They have become so obsessed by the tyranny of their trade union methods that they fear that he will in turn show the same spirit. I would rather rely on the present Labour Ministry than on the \"fools, crooks and twisters\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "and that is that, at a time like the present, when the economic condition of this country is such as it is, it is no use our talking about millions as if they were mites. We are apt to talk about a few millions as if they did not matter in the least. We have to retrench in every Department, in the Navy, the Army and the Air Force, and in every Government Department. We have to cut down ruthlessly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How did you vote on the Navy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": ". We are apt to talk about a few millions as if they did not matter in the least. We have to retrench in every Department, in the Navy, the Army and the Air Force, and in every Government Department. We have to cut down ruthlessly. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not do it?\"] I ask the same question myself. I even wrote to the papers to explain my point of view, so that it should be made quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"DO you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "ar, but when I put a further question to the Under-Secretary, I elicited the fact that the order was given on 10th November. I only mention that to show that perhaps it would be better for the Government and Members on that side to put their own house in order before advising the people of this country to buy only British goods. I wonder how many hon. Members opposite know what it is to go hungry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "in front of us, and the only way we can keep those people back—and we on this side are just as anxious as Members on the other side to keep them back—is by seeing that their stomachs are full, for when you starve the children and the man, there is no knowing what may happen. The hon. and gallant Member for Sudbury (Colonel Burton) spoke about agricultural workers earning £2 a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He corrected it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "eep those people back—and we on this side are just as anxious as Members on the other side to keep them back—is by seeing that their stomachs are full, for when you starve the children and the man, there is no knowing what may happen. The hon. and gallant Member for Sudbury (Colonel Burton) spoke about agricultural workers earning £2 a day. [HON. MEMBERS: \"A week.\"] He said a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: ''NO !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "returned to power, it would not be very long before trade was stabilised in the country and unemployment became a thing unknown. While probably there was no definite pledge, the inference to be drawn from all the speeches and manifestoes that were issued led the people of the country to think that would be an accomplished fact. Instead of that, we find that unemployment has considerably increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": "d and providing employment on the other. But this Bill is in harmony with the political morality of the Tory party. It is a Bill, as has been said by the hon. Member for Middlesbrough (Miss Wilkinson), who speaks with some knowledge and authority, for the propagation of prostitution. Many of its provisions are extracted from the cesspool of political immorality that is the asset of the Tory party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "cts where unemployment is so bad that you can say with truth that it is practically impossible for anyone at the moment to get a job. There are constituencies in this country where there is a certain volume of unemployment, and where, at the same time, there is a large number of people drawing benefit who ought not to be drawing benefit, because they are making no real effort to obtain employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I will give you Bradford !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " volume of unemployment, and where, at the same time, there is a large number of people drawing benefit who ought not to be drawing benefit, because they are making no real effort to obtain employment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] If hon. Members want to have exact details, if they will give me a list of any number of towns they like, I will tick off a selection, to enable them to make investigations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you going to vote against it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "urance, and that he will get the compensation to which he is entitled. I maintain that this Bill does not answer either of those two requirements. In the first place, the benefits are not definite; they are not clearly detailed. They are left largely to the discretion of the Minister, and they do not give the man that security against unemployment that is the justification for an insurance scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.916.3", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "se there was cruelty on the part of the parents. That is just the case we want to provide for by being able to deal with it flexibly. It is for that kind of case that we want flexibility. NOW I come to the next point, which is that of the waiting period. Our proposal has been described as disastrous, devilish, callous, etc. I ask, does the increase of the waiting period deserve all those epithets?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.916.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member for East Middlesbrough (Miss Wilkinson) is not here to speak for herself, I want to say that she said she was prepared to hold classes to teach people how to qualify because of the complexity of the continual Regulations that were being issued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Murdering the babies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Hung up you ought to be. You should be hung up on the scaffold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-07-31", "file": "debates1925-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "653a7b6850647b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.925.3", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I am saying that they are murdering babies'.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-07-31a.925.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-03", "file": "debates1925-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "9cbc4d4b7836860e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "From the point of view of the nation, certainly. If the hon. Member would like me to say, \"Could a larger yield be profitably secured?\" I will put it in that way. By profit I mean from the point of view of the agricultural labourer and the nation, because, after all, a community does not profit by a forcing up of the yield at an unprofitable cost, except in time of war, when cost does not matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-03", "file": "debates1925-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "9cbc4d4b7836860e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "ritish farming—certainly, in the arable counties that the hon. Member for Maldon (Major Ruggles-Brise) referred to, and more particularly on the heavy land, on most of the good land livings can be made—is, that the industry cannot be carried on at a profit. You have the most-skilled men found by the tribunals in some of the best farms that you get, and they cannot to-day make a living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-03", "file": "debates1925-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "9cbc4d4b7836860e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "preceding_text": "en the masters and the men, has tended to an improved wage, and has set up machinery which, so far as my experience goes, is not hindering or putting a handicap upon the industry, and is helping in the settlement and improvement of the conditions of the agricultural labourer. I would like the Minister, if he can, to tell me if the loss has stopped so far as colony settlements are concerned?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-03", "file": "debates1925-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "9cbc4d4b7836860e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HURD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In every county?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURD", "preceding_text": "e policy of getting more labour on the land, better conditions for labour and more production from the land. With all this agreement, need we hesitate? We are carrying out in the matter of housing certain demonstration houses with the aid of the Government. I do not know whether the experiment is going to work. Would it not be a good idea to have demonstration farms with the aid of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-03", "file": "debates1925-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "9cbc4d4b7836860e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1070.0", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "f your agriculture you are not likely to make English agriculture prosperous. It is only on that base that the best results can be obtained in this country. One of the most remarkable features in the part of England which I know best, the North, is that there is such a large amount of intelligence among the hinds who work the land, and who know as much about farming as the farmers who employ them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-03", "file": "debates1925-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "9cbc4d4b7836860e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "stock and the finer strains of blood and we spread them out over a very large part of the country. That was done by a Liberal Minister and with Liberal votes behind him out of money provided in a Liberal Budget, and under those circumstances I think we are fully justified by our record in taking part in agricultural discussions. I do not make these points with any desire to score in a party sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-03", "file": "debates1925-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "9cbc4d4b7836860e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1082.0", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ere is no inducement to the farmer to produce pure milk or milk of a high butter fat content. I do not get a farthing a gallon more than my neighbour who has loathsome conditions and is only just able to scrape through the regulations. It seems to me that the interest of a country to make it worth while in pounds, shillings and pence, because that is really what the farmer is interested in —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-03", "file": "debates1925-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "9cbc4d4b7836860e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1123.7", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "the new Regulation is this. It does three things. In the first place, it says that the chairman in future shall be elected not by a majority but unanimously. The next thing it says is that if there be default in the finding of a chairman, or the proper election of a chairman, then the Superintending, Insurance Committee is to be skipped over and the whole power is to pass directly to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-03a.1123.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-08-04", "file": "debates1925-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "416b4652138dbcc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-04a.1130.4", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "MERSEY TUNNEL BILL [Lords],", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Object !", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That, in the case of the Mersey Tunnel Bill [ Lords ], Standing Orders 84, 214, 215. and 239 be suspended, and that the Bill be now taken into consideration provided amended prints shall have been previously deposited.\"—[ The Chairman of Ways and Means. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-04a.1130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-04", "file": "debates1925-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "416b4652138dbcc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-04a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MACHINE GUN CORPS MEMORIAL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "Is not the inscription an offence to everybody concerned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-04a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-04", "file": "debates1925-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "416b4652138dbcc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-04a.1317.5", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS (PREVENTION OF ABUSES) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "people get titles because they have not worked for them. They get other people to do it for them. Although the hon. Member has not expressed himself so gracefully as I Have, I am glad to support him in his opposition to giving honours or titles to any man or woman who has not rendered service. I am willing to honour either the man or the woman who renders service. I never expect to get any honour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-04a.1317.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1338.2", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Names, Names!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. SUGDEN", "preceding_text": "When they have not followed the contract terms for British material should they not be penalised for their wrongdoing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1345.3", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Daily Mail!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "It is very publicly stated in the newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1349.0", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TEXTILE INDUSTRY DISPUTE, YORKSHIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A fortnight!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "The present dispute has already lasted a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1350.6", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TEXTILE INDUSTRY DISPUTE, YORKSHIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": "Conditions obviously vary in different cases, and in the present case, as I have said, my right hon. Friend thinks no useful purpose could be served at the moment by an inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1350.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": "The Government have expressed a desire to solve this question, and it is well known that royalties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1401.4", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "f the right hon. Gentleman who has just sat down about giving hope to the unemployed. It is positively immoral to hold out any great hopes in view of the situation in this country until we are in a position to say that we are really going to improve matters. I do not think there is anybody in any section of the House who believes that under our existing system at this moment we really can do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1401.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1406.3", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "ing by the astounding sum of £79,750,000, in 1923 by £92,300,000, in 1924 by £135,700,000, and in the first six months of 1925—I have been taking the six months' period all through — by £207,000,000. Last year's adverse balance was £340,000,000, and at the present rate we look like having an adverse balance of £450,000,000 upon the completion of this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1410.0", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUGH EDWARDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUGH EDWARDS", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend that the trade union officials of this country have been a most potent factor in keeping industrial peace, because they have addressed themselves again and again to the task of preventing upheavals. Since the right hon. Gentleman has paid that tribute to trade unions, I think he will agree with me that one of the safe and soundest trade unionists in this country is Mr. Appleton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "National Sailors' and Firemen's Union, and I understand that those negotiations were carried through with agreement by both sides, and that the agreement resulted in a reduction of something between 7 and 10 per cent. No one would suggest that either the miners or the agricultural labourers should be asked to give up anything of their wages which are, as everybody will admit, far too small to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We all agree with him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Gentleman stands there and says they are not putting any obstacles in the way. I say their whole policy is one of obstacles, and their whole policy is one of pinpricks against that Government. The hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Ayr Burghs (Lieut.-Colonel Moore) spoke the feelings in your hearts about the Soviet Government. He said what some have not so much pluck to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eleven years!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman's own Department knows the number that I send occasionally, and to the Minister of Pensions as well. I want to repeat something I said the other night. I want to hear of the debt that we owe, not only to the ex-service men, but to all the workers in the War. The country, however, owes a special debt to the ex-service men. It is just—how many many years since the War broke out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1455.0", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBLIRY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBLIRY", "preceding_text": "I am not quite certain that I shall be allowed to answer that question, but I might just tell the hon. Gentleman who put the question that it is not true. What I want to point ou—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1455.0", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBLIRY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBLIRY", "preceding_text": ". We all honour you and admire the ungrudging way in which you have done your duty. That you will live long, enjoy with happiness the peace which you so hardly won, is the most earnest wish of my heart. I have not the least doubt that the King, when he handed these papers round, meant every word that is contained there. But he is not responsible. The people responsible are on the benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1472.4", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERSEY TUNNEL BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is a road!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "rnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) was Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was distinctly stated—and it was so stated in order to obtain the large taxes that were put on motor vehicles—and pledges were given, that the amount contributed by motor taxpayers should be used for the construction, maintenance and upkeep of roads and bridges. That was the only purpose for which it could be used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1472.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1472.4", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERSEY TUNNEL BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A road!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": " of the Exchequer, it was distinctly stated—and it was so stated in order to obtain the large taxes that were put on motor vehicles—and pledges were given, that the amount contributed by motor taxpayers should be used for the construction, maintenance and upkeep of roads and bridges. That was the only purpose for which it could be used. [HON. MEMBERS: \"This is a road!\"] It is a tunnel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1472.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1476.2", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERSEY TUNNEL BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the schools?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "and by sheer hard work there are only from 4 to 6 per cent. of those men who have not made good. These men feel this. When I go down to a meeting of these smallholders and market gardeners, as I shall have to do during the Recess, supposing I made no protest to-night they would say to me, \"Were you in the House of Commons when £2,500,000 was voted for some place of which we have never heard?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1489.2", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERSEY TUNNEL BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "preceding_text": " line. If the House is right in paying this money for the purpose of the Mersey Tunnel, while the Minister is perfectly entitled to satisfy hon. Members' fears on other matters, I say that to cross-examine the Minister on a matter which ought to be raised on some separate occasion, seems to me a wrong method of dealing with the matter of a Private Bill of this sort. There is one other observation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1490.0", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERSEY TUNNEL BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "May I appeal to the House to give the Bill the Third Reading now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1491.4", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DANGEROUS DRUGS BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The UNDERSECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Godfrey Locker-Lampson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\" \"Yes!\" \"Agreed!\" \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDERSECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Godfrey Locker-Lampson)", "preceding_text": "of signatures of the Convention is 30th September. We want, if possible, to ratify the Convention as soon as possible after the 30th September, and if we wait for this Bill until the House meets again we shall be too late so far as that period is concerned, and therefore we want, if possible, to get this Bill through as soon as possible. I do not know whether hon. Members would like me to explain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1491.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1491.6", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DANGEROUS DRUGS BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on!\" and \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "lude coca leaves under a former Act. They are the real basis of cocaine. We place them in the same category as raw opium. Hon. Members will find that in the first Clause. In the second place, we are relaxing the rule that makes people mark small packages of opium, because it has been found that where these packages are marked it draws notice, and people steal these packages. I will sit down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1491.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1493.4", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS REGULATION ACT, 1920.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE", "preceding_text": "ng village. It is famous all round for the gallantry of its lifeboat, and for the many seamen that it sends every year into the Navy. This little village, as I say, at the present time is a mile and a-half north of Yarmouth. There has been put up quite a collection of lodging houses, villas, bungalows and houses of that sort. It is an incipient health resort. It is proposed to put up a gas holder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1493.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS REGULATION ACT, 1920.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "I see what the feeling of the House is, and I am going to make this suggestion to my hon. Friend, that he should allow this Order to go through on the condition that if within three months those interested, either the local authority or anybody else, are able to provide a site which will be a suitable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS REGULATION ACT, 1920.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "I see what the feeling of the House is, and I am going to make this suggestion to my hon. Friend, that he should allow this Order to go through on the condition that if within three months those interested, either the local authority or anybody else, are able to provide a site which will be a suitable—[HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] I would be willing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-05", "file": "debates1925-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "7897691c3e31875f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1497.6", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS REGULATION ACT, 1920.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Debate be now adjourned.\" I made a suggestion with the object of meeting the hon. Member for East Norfolk (Mr. Neville), which I thought would give an opportunity for some arrangement to be come to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-05a.1497.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CROWN PROPERTY (VALUE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman not realise that his last answer proves the urgent need of the information for which we are asking? The complaint against Government Departments has always been that they put their own value on what is rateable value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1558.3", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CROWN PROPERTY (VALUE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Arising out of a former reply on this question, the right hon. Gentleman said he thought it was quite unnecessary to get the capital value of Government property. We hold that we have a right to get this question answered, because, as can be seen, this side is interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1581.7", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "ce of trade unions who had the power and the will to inflict enormous and irreparable damage on their country. Had a stoppage come, it would, as I said earlier in my speech, have caused an infinite amount of misery in the country. It is apparently with some a deliberate and avowed policy to force a stoppage of this kind on the country, regardless of the suffering, and that is a grave menace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1581.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1592.0", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "I regret very much the closing sentences and the closing tone of the Prime Minister's speech. I think I am not very far wrong if I say, with real respect, that, in the handling of all those modern and very difficult and complicated problems of democratic government, both in its political and its industrial aspect, the Prime Minister has not had very much experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1592.0", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "and the men do not want rows for the sake of rows. I am speaking now from my own experience. Nobody will work harder for peace than these men. I do beg of the Prime Minister not to make statements which seem to indicate that, if there had been trouble from 12 o'clock last Friday, only one side would have been to blame. That is not the case! He did not say it definitely, but he rather indicated it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1592.0", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The coalowners want them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "en trouble from 12 o'clock last Friday, only one side would have been to blame. That is not the case! He did not say it definitely, but he rather indicated it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] When his speech is read to-morrow that is what will be inferred. If I have done no other good in my speech, if I get a disclaimer of that from the Prime Minister, I shall have done something. Nobody wants disturbances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1604.0", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "anction an unlimited guarantee, a guarantee without any limit of amount, and, as I shall point out, without any real limit of time, of wages and profits in the coal trade, without any settlement in form or in substance. That is a very serious proposition to invite the assent of the House of Commons to. My right hon. Friend has pointed out that this is a Vote of £10,000,000 to pay wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1604.0", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your policy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "voting even £24,000,000 let alone £10,000,000. Take the first assumption. Is June the worst month? I have listened to what the Prime Minister said about the trade prospects. It was not encouraging. I thought that it was very depressing. On the faces of two or three of his hon. Friends I saw a little flicker. We have not had any report of the effect of the gold standard upon export trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I shall get many cheers from my Tory friends in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1606.4", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "on, whether the Prime Minister and the Government imagine that they will be in a position in May of next year to drop this guarantee. They guarantee wages to the amount demanded by the miners. They guarantee profits up to a certain point. It is not clear, on the face of the document, how much is guaranteed. Mr. Cook takes a very strong view as to the amount, and he was a partner to the settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1606.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1606.4", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Sankey Commission.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "not clear, on the face of the document, how much is guaranteed. Mr. Cook takes a very strong view as to the amount, and he was a partner to the settlement. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"] Let us see what is likely to happen. There is to be an inquiry. Negotiations will follow. I cannot imagine any inquiry resulting in anything but a recommendation in favour of a drastic reconstruction of the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1606.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1606.4", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "tiations will follow. I cannot imagine any inquiry resulting in anything but a recommendation in favour of a drastic reconstruction of the coal industry. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The Sankey Commission.\"] That was not the only Report of the Sankey Commission. I was against it, and I opposed it. I defended my action in this House, and I shall do so again, and I am entitled as a Member of Parliament to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1606.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1606.4", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "e coalowners that, as a condition of a loan to the industry, there should be a great unification which would save expenditure, we could then see the end of it, and I agree that the House of Commons would have gone any length in order to put an end to this constant and repeated trouble in the coalfields, which has baffled every Ministry up to the present, including the Labour Ministry of last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1606.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1606.4", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "to the present, including the Labour Ministry of last year. [ Interruption. ] The Government certainly did not settle it in 1924. But the danger of this is that it is nationalisation in its worst form. It is a guarantee of wages and profits, without any control, without any limit, and without any restriction I opposed the Nationalisation Bill of the Labour party last year, and I shall do so again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1606.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1609.3", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " there is a much graver issue involved in this. The Government undoubtedly came to these terms against their own judgment, because of the threat which was directed against them. The right hon. Gentleman admits it. That is a very serious thing; it is a very serious action for a Government to take. I am not criticising the right hon. Gentleman for changing his mind in the course of the negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1609.3", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "inding it necessary to make a concession and to alter his point of view. That may in itself be a proof, not of cowardice, but of courage. That is not my criticism. The point I am putting is that the right hon. Gentleman came to that conclusion, not because of any considered judgment of his own, but because of the threat which was made. Quite frankly, the Government were afraid of facing cold steel", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1609.3", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ion. ] There was certainly a threat. I do not know what it was, unless it was a threat. It was certainly a statement of a very serious character, that unless the Government and the mineowners—unless the Government, at any rate— accepted the position of seeing that wages at a certain figure were the result of the negotiations, then there would be not merely a strike of the miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1611.3", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With audacity!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "unning away from them on the Thames and leaving his purse behind. That is the real explanation, and I think the most menacing. You have only to read what has been said after that victory by those who have taken the larger part in it—not the hon. Gentlemen here above the Gangway, but the men outside who took that action, who took, if you like, their courage in their hands, and organised this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1611.3", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "y of direct action. So it was. It ie no use pretending otherwise. At the last Election hon. Members opposite were very gallantly fighting against the flaming apostles of Zinovieff and beating them badly. To-night they are being herded into the Red Lobby. The hand that directs them will be the hand of the Patronage Secretary to the Treasury, but the voice that compels them is the voice of Mr. Cook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1611.3", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "e that drove him to make a bargain which is an improvident one, and the end of which no one can see. There is no limit of time in it; there is no limit of money in it. It is, for the moment, practical nationalisation with a Government guarantee, and without any control. And the right hon. Gentleman has conceded that merely because he was driven to it by the action of the direct actionists outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1613.0", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LESLIE SCOTT", "preceding_text": "212;two, the Forest of Dean and Bristol, are rather small, and I have not the figures for them—five have been working for months and months past wholly at a loss, over the whole district. There are only two of the districts which have been making anything like a substantial rate of profit per ton, namely, Somerset and the Eastern federated area. Somerset is so small that one can rule it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1617.1", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "regards prices, it is not true, as was stated by the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs, that under the system proposed it is possible for a company to quote a low price and ask the Government still to pay a guaranteed 13 per cent, profit. That is a travesty of the position. The position is this, that the contribution is a contribution, in the first instance, only and directly towards wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1617.1", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": " first instance, only and directly towards wages. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I repeat that the direct contribution is simply and solely to pay the difference between the rate of wages which would be paid under the 1924 Agreement, if it were continued, and the terms that were offered by the owners as the only terms which the industry at present could afford. That is the position, with this result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1618.1", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, yes, there is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": " not believe that a lawyer or a Judge possesses the proper qualifications to be chairman of such a body. I am not criticising Mr. Justice Sankey. In my view, the problem before this Royal Commission will be quite different from the problem which was before the last. A Judge can, and ought to try issues between contending parties. Today, in this matter, there is no issue between contending parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1619.1", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It satisfied the working class!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": " are business men. I was present at the last Commission, as I said, and the composition of that Commission, with a set of partisans on one side, and a set of partisans on the other side, made the Commission—and I say so with respect to the learned Judge who presided over it—a farce. It was a complete failure from the point of view of satisfying the general public of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1620.1", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the output?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "are satisfied to work, six days a week and eight hours a day. I am not saying that is desirable, but I am saying two things, that so far as I could judge, there was no discontent with those working hours, and. secondly, from the point of view of competition in the export markets of the world, we are very much handicapped if we are only working seven hours a day, and in most cases five days a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1620.1", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "alisation, because it is only by that means that we can effect such a unification of the collieries as will enable them to work efficiently.\" It is interesting to note that most people have come to the conclusion that there is a unit of size which makes a limit in the process of amalgamation or combination beyond which you do not get increased efficiency by reason of the difficulties that come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "alfields which are being opened out miners are needed. It is perfectly clear that in these new minefields there is a practical certainty of making a profit. There is a practical certainty of good wages. I do suggest that those who advise the Miners' Federation should co-operate with a view to carrying out the migration of population from the districts that do not pay to the districts that can pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1626.4", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "have to-day two great opposing camps using the language of hostile armies, one bargaining with the other and each trying to make the best bargain. That is not an attitude of mind which is likely to produce the greatest production in the pits. Take an illustration of which hon. Members opposite may not approve, but which I think is interesting—the case of the Vauxhall Colliery in North Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1626.4", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Now we will get it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "trying to make the best bargain. That is not an attitude of mind which is likely to produce the greatest production in the pits. Take an illustration of which hon. Members opposite may not approve, but which I think is interesting—the case of the Vauxhall Colliery in North Wales. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I anticipated that dissent. None the less I ask hon. Members just to let me state my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMILLIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Date!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMILLIE", "preceding_text": "e workers were lower than they ought to be. We had indications that a reduction to the extent to which I have said, 2s. or 1s. 6d. a day, was not all that was contemplated. I want to let the House know what was before the miners. I have here a speech by the chief spokesman of the mineowners of this country. It was delivered at a dinner in London of the economic circle of the National Liberal Club.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMILLIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMILLIE", "preceding_text": " meeting condemning the Prime Minister and, through him, the Government for this proposed subsidy. You may take it from us that the miners were exceedingly anxious to avoid, if possible, subsidising any industry at all. We know the country has already subsidised the sugar-beet industry. The mining industry, if it requires it, has just as much justification for a subsidy as the sugar-beet industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMILLIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMILLIE", "preceding_text": " carry it on. In conclusion, I want to make an appeal on behalf of the mining folk. It may seem somewhat strange, but I feel that the miner is an honest worker doing his best in the production of coal, and I think his wife and his children have as good a right to a comfortable living as the wife and children of any hon. Members of this House. That statement may strike some hon. Members as strange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1637.0", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have got it now! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "only a gift to the owners. That is an indication that, on the ground of alleviating the trouble, this is not going to be a very successful method. It is perfectly true that a part of the subsidy will go to the creation of profits which at present do not exist, but it is equally certain that much the largest portion will go to make up the wages to the minimum which the miners have hitherto enjoyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1643.2", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": "s to produce similar results will receive great encouragement, and the sane, levelheaded leaders of the trade union movement are thrust backward, and their advice is damnified by the success of the movement promoted by the more violent. All these are most serious considerations. I hope and trust before the Debate closes we may have an asssurance from the Government, for what it may be worth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "ay of an evolutionary development in the coalfields. For the last three years it has been perfectly clear that, under the present system, the coal mines cannot be made to pay. There must be some system of unification or development of coal and power, as advocated in the often ridiculed result of the inquiry presided over by my right hon. Friend the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "y. There must be some system of unification or development of coal and power, as advocated in the often ridiculed result of the inquiry presided over by my right hon. Friend the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George). [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members laugh at that, but I venture to say that those much maligned recommendations will yet form the solution of the coal difficulties of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1674.2", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ment from the Government in power for the moment. There have been in recent years, I will not say lately, but certainly there have been continuous submissions to very heavy reductions in wages, and a point has been reached where the workers are now unanimously saying that a halt must be called. Indeed, the workers are the only class in the country, after all, that have made real sacrifices —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1674.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1680.1", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "n of the whole of this Committee when I say that, having regard to the temper on both sides, and having regard to the actual facts of the coal trade at the present time, there never was any chance whatever of any intervention by the Government preventing a deadlock, such as was reached on Thursday evening last. That, I am glad to know, is confirmed by my right hon. Friend the Member for Hill-head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1680.1", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "any section or organisation however respectable or however powerful. We have heard in this Debate of an attempt to hold up the whole community, of the threat of cutting off the vital supply services. The use of such a threat as a political weapon, which has been more and more apparent in recent years, is a grave fact which will require the profound and continuous attention of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-06", "file": "debates1925-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "0f07e7333529bbc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1692.0", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING INDUSTRY, TEMPORARY SUBVENTION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": " their own followers for the right course, they could have taken, or threatened to take, action by way of emergency legislation which would have put a completely different complexion upon the situation. The facts are widely known, and are not in dispute. The real difficulty was not the shortness of time, but the unwillingness of the supporters of the Government to support them in the right course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-06a.1692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-07", "file": "debates1925-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e135a93c60ee974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1706.1", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CANAL DEVELOPMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "preceding_text": "Yes, we do examine these canal schemes, but very few of those put before the Ministry hold water at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-07", "file": "debates1925-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e135a93c60ee974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "us inroad into the working conditions of the working class population. I am quoting here from speeches made by the Prime Minister and by the Home Secretary, two representative members of the party opposite. The Prime Minister said on 30th July: All the workers of this country will have to take reductions in wages to help to put industry on its feet. The Prime Minister said that on 30th July, 1925.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-07", "file": "debates1925-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e135a93c60ee974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1754.1", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "It was reported in the \"Daily Herald.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-07", "file": "debates1925-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e135a93c60ee974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1766.1", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "hod would be for the House of Commons next year to cut down the money set aside for national expenditure, and thereby force—or rather, I would say, assist—the Chancellor of the Exchequer to curb the spending Departments of the State. If he did so, what would be the result? Many of my Friends above the Gangway are not so interested in national expenditure as some of us on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-07", "file": "debates1925-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e135a93c60ee974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1768.0", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: ''You have done it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "spect since the days before the War. This £223,000,000, however, requires considerable analysis. £93,000,000 is represented by pensions, old age and war. Is it suggested that we should reduce that? £47,000,000 is represented by education. Is it suggested that we should reduce that? £13,000,000 is represented by Unemployment Insurance. Is it suggested that we should reduce that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-07", "file": "debates1925-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e135a93c60ee974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1803.4", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA AND CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "luable asset to hon. Gentlemen opposite, and I do not think they will be allowed to show any sort of friendliness to Bolshevists during the next four years, in case that very valuable card should be withdrawn from their pack when the next Election comes. The fourth reason is, \"It is impossible to have friendly relations with a Government which are directly responsible for anti-British propaganda.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1803.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-07", "file": "debates1925-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e135a93c60ee974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1815.1", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA AND CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. KNOX", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. KNOX", "preceding_text": "hold any office in the country who is not a Communist. Here, from time to time, we may have a Labour Government, or a Conservative Government, or, perhaps, a Liberal Government, according to the will of the people, but in Russia, where 90 per cent. of the people are peasants and anti-Communists, the Government is consistently Communist. Then there is the continued anti-religious propaganda —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-07", "file": "debates1925-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e135a93c60ee974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA AND CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. KNOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. KNOX", "preceding_text": "I am not making any reproach against Comrade Tomski, but I would like to tell the House why he took the name of Tomski.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-07", "file": "debates1925-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e135a93c60ee974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA AND CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. KNOX", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. KNOX", "preceding_text": "I am not making any reproach against Comrade Tomski, but I would like to tell the House why he took the name of Tomski. [ Interruption. ] He simply took that name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-07", "file": "debates1925-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e135a93c60ee974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUSSIA AND CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": " true to say that these credits raised in this country were available for the purchase of British goods. They were no more available than were the credits raised by Denmark or Czechoslovakia. What is happening? The foreign trade of Russia grows and expands. This country is doing a certain amount of that trade. We are doing a certain amount of it in my own constituency, and getting paid for it too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-07", "file": "debates1925-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e135a93c60ee974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1855.0", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL OFFICERS (MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the unemployed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " service, not only on the upper deck but on the lower deck. A lower deck man told me the other day that his great-great-grandfather had been a captain under Nelson, and they had been in the Navy ever since. Do you not want the young men to marry, and if they marry do you not want the children educated? Do you not want them to have as good a chance as the wives and children of the Army and the Air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-07", "file": "debates1925-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e135a93c60ee974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1866.0", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL OFFICERS (MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. STRICKLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. STRICKLAND", "preceding_text": "e coal trouble of England, the most important thing is to ascertain how we may be able to produce coal cheap enough to compete with other countries, who are our rivals in the foreign market, and perhaps it would be very much better if some of this £10,000,000 or £20,000,000, or whatever the total may be, were spent immediately by the Government in acquiring the necessary royalties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-08-07", "file": "debates1925-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "3e135a93c60ee974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1866.0", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL OFFICERS (MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. STRICKLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. STRICKLAND", "preceding_text": "whatever the total may be, were spent immediately by the Government in acquiring the necessary royalties—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]—and mining rights and sink new profitable pits. If we are to compete successfully with foreign countries, we must transfer the mining population as soon as possible to where coal can be raised profitably. I wish next to say a few words about the gold standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-08-07a.1866.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.9.5", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It is so.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.9.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.18.4", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "Could the Prime Minister not arrange to hold up these discharges for a few days, until he is able to make a definite decision. Cannot I have an answer to my question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.18.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.24.7", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRAQ.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the right hon. Gentleman, in answer to the question: \"Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether the advocacy of Communism is illegal,\" replied: \"Obviously, if it had been, the hon. Member might find himself in custody\"? This is a matter of very great importance,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.24.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "e never had that committee. We should like to have it and any other committee, if an inquiry is going to be held. I was rather interested to hear the right hon. Gentleman's violent denunciation of what has been done by Gentlemen on that Front Bench when we contrast the position which in our memory he occupied not so long ago with the position of the Government, I will not say, on a similar matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " House takes the opportunity during this Session of dealing very drasti [...] with the question of Russian relationships, not only our country, but all Europe, is in danger of drifting more and more into chaos and probably war. We are entitled to know from the Prime Minister why it was that no representative of the Foreign Office was on the platform to see the Minister from Russia off on Saturday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.47.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.50.5", "colnum": "50", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I think we might ask you very respectfully to tell us what it means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.50.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": " is decreasing in volume and intensity instead of, as some of us think, increasing in intensity. There is the question which has been referred to by the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury), the relationship of this country to Russia. It is a monstrous thing that the Foreign Secretary has treated the representative of this great country in the way that he has during the past week of two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "in spite of the figures that the Government produce, with more and more unemployed thrown upon the rates without the rates being able to meet the charge, and no provision made to help the ratepayers over the difficult times, the right hon. Gentleman gets up and says, \"If you will not discuss the other things, we shall have plenty of time to discuss everything.\" That is playing with the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister, in his reply a few minutes ago, has entirely failed to grasp the significance of the speeches that have been made from these benches. I think it will be generally admitted that Members who sit on this side are more closely in touch with the masses of the people of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.69.2", "colnum": "69", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "I repeat that it is generally taken for granted that Members on this side are more in touch with the mass of the working people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.69.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is the most law-abiding country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "e world, and I do not know that we are so admirable in all our undertakings and laws that we are never to consider, at all events, what other countries deem to be necessary with the primary object of convicting a criminal of crime, and I am advised that this is a Clause which is to be found, as the right hon. Gentleman said, in the jurisprudence of country after country on the Continent of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "in fact, the rights given by this Clause 31. All that the Government is asking for is that in the case of political crimes, when there is no emergency, they shall have these powers of search. I do protest against the House giving any Government such a right at this time of the night, when it has been clearly sprung upon the House at a moment's notice. It was before the House in Committee upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "at trade unions, Socialist societies and individuals would be likely to be discussing plans for a general stoppage; and as I understand the Government spokesman in the Courts to-day, it is now going to be held that any of us who encourage a general stoppage, any of us who encourage a general strike, any of us who emphasise the class war, are going to be treated as persons guilty of illegal action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " country the Continental gentleman known as the agent-provocateur, the gentleman who goes around egging people on. I marched in East End processions during the unemployed agitation two or three years ago, and I had men in plain clothes on each side of me, and they were whispering to me as I marched along, \"Is it not very nearly time we stopped this b— marching up and down and did something?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-16", "file": "debates1925-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3444fb432c7c6795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ith under this Clause. The right hon. Gentleman said the business of this Clause is to prevent crime, and that that is much better than dealing with crime after it has been committed. We all agree about that, but what we disagree about is as to what is crime. I am a criminal in the eyes of some people because I advocate certain principles. I am a person that ought to be put away and taken care of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-16a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-17", "file": "debates1925-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b69d6a2330c6b634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.192.4", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Will you allow me to make a personal explanation? It happens not to be the name of the person who lived in that house at Atherstone Road, and it happens that it is not me, because I never lived there, and if that is a legal record, I beg to inform the Attorney-General that it is quite inaccurate, and not true. No person of the name of George Lansbury lived at 35, Atherstone Road at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.192.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-17", "file": "debates1925-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b69d6a2330c6b634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.193.6", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Might I ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman whether the circumstances of talking to the Public Prosecutor which he has now described— he did not attempt to influence him—are not somewhat identical with what happened 12 months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.193.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-17", "file": "debates1925-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b69d6a2330c6b634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.194.4", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I would refer my hon. Friend to what I said at Sheffield on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.194.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-17", "file": "debates1925-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b69d6a2330c6b634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECOND SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"England!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "to this country. As to that, I do not think he will receive the applause which hon. Members opposite appeared anxious to give him at the beginning of his speech. My hon. Friend is in a difficulty about the naturalisation of those members of his community who were here before the War, those who have been resident here for 50 years, some of whom have given their sons to fight for England in the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-17", "file": "debates1925-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b69d6a2330c6b634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECOND SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ntry, it would be ridiculous to allow foreigners to come in. If that be so, why not apply the principle thoroughly and keep out the Irish or the Scottish? Why allow anybody to come in? If your principle is that as long as there is unemployment, nobody should be allowed into the area where the unemployment exists, you may as well scrap the railways of the country and prevent any migration whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-17", "file": "debates1925-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b69d6a2330c6b634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECOND SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ee that those workers, on coming into this country, are allowed to produce the goods we all want to consume. I dare not go into the whole problem of unemployment to-day—it would not be in order —but I beg of hon. Members to recall the famous reply of Malthus. You are all Malthusians if you really believe you can benefit this country by keeping able-bodied immigrants out of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-17", "file": "debates1925-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b69d6a2330c6b634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECOND SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir GEORGE COURTHOPE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too late!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir GEORGE COURTHOPE", "preceding_text": ". V. Alexander), who moved to report Progress, that he is following the wrong course to achieve his desire? If it be true that there is general agreement in all parts of the Committee that the Tithe Bill now before the House should be postponed for further consideration, and the temporary system continued for another year, that can easily be done on the consideration of the Tithe Bill on Thursday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-17", "file": "debates1925-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b69d6a2330c6b634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ght you would get through.\" I suggest that, if there are any Bills to be scrapped, let them be highly contentious Bills that we fear are coming in later on, and let us get on with the Measures that are at least largely agreed upon and that will take very little time. This Motion for the Adjournment has taken a large part of the time that could have been taken up by the Education Bill for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-17", "file": "debates1925-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b69d6a2330c6b634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "that we should reach some kind of agreement. Would it be possible, if we proceeded now with a discussion of the Sheriff Courts Bill till eleven o'clock, that I should have some undertaking from hon. Members opposite, in accordance with an arrangement which was discussed, as I understand, yesterday, that the Criminal Justice Bill might be on a subsequent day allowed to go through in a short period?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-17", "file": "debates1925-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b69d6a2330c6b634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman cannot say that he will give us the time at all, unless he accepts the suggestion that I am going to make. I am quite sure it can be carried out, and then we can have a harmonious House of Commons. We are divided into English and Scottish. The Members for Scotland do not think of their holidays. The English Members are particularly anxious to get away for the Christmas holidays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-17a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-18", "file": "debates1925-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f5265042058529f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCARNO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "indeed to get that information. That was not published in the \"Manchester Guardian,\" but, in any event, that is good enough or bad enough, because what does it mean? That speech has been taken to mean— and certainly reading it impartially and reading is as the pronouncement of a Minister I should say that this was the idea in his mind—that Locarno is going to be used to isolate Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-18", "file": "debates1925-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f5265042058529f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCARNO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "s no indication that it was a second un-considered speech. The hon. Member himself ought to have corrected it next day. Perhaps he took the view which I always take that it was not worth while. (HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] He was quite right in taking that view, but now that I give him a chance of explaining, he should not be indignant about it. However, we need not take up time with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.440.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-18", "file": "debates1925-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f5265042058529f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCARNO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "you get there you find there is another peak further on. That is the kind of peak that I hope he regards this as—a place from where he can see something beyond to climb up to. If this be really regarded as the end, and as something to rest on, I think it is a folly, a mistake, a peril. You have got to carry it further than that. After all, there are the Balkans. We know well what that means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-18", "file": "debates1925-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f5265042058529f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCARNO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "ls of the Foreign Office present. I am quite sure invitations were in the ordinary course extended to them and they knew that the correct attitude under the present administration would be a refusal. Therefore, they were perfectly right. It is the correct attitude. There has never been an attempt at friendliness towards the Soviet representatives or the Soviet Government during the last 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-18", "file": "debates1925-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f5265042058529f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.511.2", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCARNO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "ern Russia. I quite agree. Where do they come in? Why are they left out in the cold? They are just where they were. The leaders of the Socialist element are always bringing in this question of Russia. I think I quite follow what is your idea. At the back of your minds is: socialise by communistic principles or otherwise the whole of Europe, and then we shall get peace, and that is the only remedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-18", "file": "debates1925-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f5265042058529f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCARNO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": " be 20 years. Everybody knows, I suppose, that there are obvious dangers and difficulties in the Pact, but it is a great step forward. That nobody can doubt. Dangers and difficulties are one thing, but we have surmounted that. When the hon. Member for Shoreditch talks about an increased armament, we were, if I may respectfully say so, the only nation in Europe that was disarmed when the War began.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-18", "file": "debates1925-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f5265042058529f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.513.5", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCARNO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": " my country. I do not want to keep my country down and to keep people unemployed. I want employment and the circulation of trade. If the Labour party had proposed to us this Pact, we should not have voted for any amendment which would destroy it. We, should have voted loyally for the Pact. Those who vote against the ratification of the Pact and vote for this Amendment are enemies to their country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.513.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-18", "file": "debates1925-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f5265042058529f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCARNO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "can only overturn them by war, and if you are not prepared for war the sooner you make peace with them the better. Rightly or wrongly the Russians believe this, and one of the first effects of this Pact is that the Russian Government have increased their expenditure upon armaments; an ominous welcome to this Pact, an ominous rendering of the new spirit that is supposed to be provoked by this Pact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-18", "file": "debates1925-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f5265042058529f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCARNO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "ty expressed towards her. It may be that I am not a very distinguished person, but at any rate I have grounds for saying that the Russian Foreign Office declares that from London to Peking she feels the animosity of the position of the British Foreign Office. That is the statement of the Russian Foreign Secretary. You may think that it is strange that so humble a person as myself should know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-18", "file": "debates1925-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6f5265042058529f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCARNO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should she not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": " that you ought to take this situation, and realise that anxiety, and you ought to see that now is the moment, when we are turning over a new leaf in the West, you ought to seize to approach Russia. It is the moment for a friendly approach. It is perfectly true what the right hon. Gentleman the Foreign Secretary said, that we all know that Russia would not join in the League at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-18a.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-19", "file": "debates1925-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db67c511af29c8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.550.2", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "Certainly not! I have no power to send British-born children out of the country. It was at the express wish of this man that these children were allowed to accompany him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.550.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-19", "file": "debates1925-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db67c511af29c8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.559.5", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MAJOR SHEPPARD'S ARREST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "preceding_text": "The second supplementary question I wish to ask is really in the interests of the man himself. It was really a question as to whether the particular man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.559.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-19", "file": "debates1925-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db67c511af29c8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.566.4", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I notice that there are two representatives appointed on behalf of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.566.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-19", "file": "debates1925-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db67c511af29c8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "I want to give notice that I will raise this to-night on the Adjournment. It is quite a serious business. Talk about keeping industries going—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-19", "file": "debates1925-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db67c511af29c8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.578.6", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order! Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "In view of the confusion that has arisen among many local authorities because of these surcharges, will the right hon. Gentleman request the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury to give us time in which to discuss the matter in this House? This is a matter of some importance, as the right hon. Gentleman knows. Auditors are giving quite contrary decisions all over the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.578.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-19", "file": "debates1925-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db67c511af29c8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.624.7", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TITHE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "se might be made out for the State urging that a lower rate of interest should now be paid. Yet there is not one man in this House— I do not think there is anyone on the Labour benches—who would say that you should cut down the rate of interest and break the contract in those specific cases: and any Government which did that would shatter British credit and dishonour British tradition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.624.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-19", "file": "debates1925-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db67c511af29c8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.658.5", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TITHE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, they are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "money for all those people. Is it of any interest to the community to know how the robbers divide the spoil? I should say that when we are registering a voice as to who is to have the £75,000 a year spoil, it would be well for us to see that those more in need of the money get it, and I think the parsons are more in need of it than the landlords. The parsons are not represented in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.658.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-19", "file": "debates1925-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "db67c511af29c8f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.756.5", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TITHE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-19a.756.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-20", "file": "debates1925-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce0e021ec9a8af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": "e Member of the House who could get up and honestly say that he has never exceeded the 20 miles speed limit? It seems to me that the whole attitude of certain hon. Member towards the question of motoring is on a wrong basis. You cannot look on the motorist to-day as a single class, and picture him as a rich man in a fur coat, smoking a cigar, as was done 20 years ago. Everybody is a, motorist now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-20", "file": "debates1925-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce0e021ec9a8af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": "ut down reckless driving. It is for these reasons that I strongly urge the Committee not to be led away by prejudice. The hon. and gallant Member for Leith has been a little unworthy of the skill with which he usually puts forward any case which he has to present. The question of the risk to children has been disposed of by the right hon. and learned Member for Cambridge University (Mr. Rawlinson)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-20", "file": "debates1925-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce0e021ec9a8af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. Member who has just spoken represents in the least, the ordinary democratic motors. He says that the motorists' worst foe is the policeman. I sometimes drive a two-seater, and I regard the policeman as my best friend, because he guards me from the reckless motorist who, in my experience, is generally the wealthy motorist with a very high-powered car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-20", "file": "debates1925-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce0e021ec9a8af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.820.3", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " against us, they are our enemies.\" He is one of the members of the party of law and order. I wonder whether the great heads of the Communist party in Moscow have really mended their ways and secretly enlisted the sympathies of hon. Members opposite? It would, perhaps, be much more effective. Then he complains that a conviction can be obtained on the small evidence of one or two police constables.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.820.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-20", "file": "debates1925-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce0e021ec9a8af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.821.2", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "ain that each side in that accident immediately starts to say that the other side was driving recklessly. In every case that gets into the County Court, the same thing is said. The difficulty in accepting the evidence is enormous, and the danger of wrongful conviction is very great. Hon. Members opposite seem to think that it would be right for hon. Members on this side to be wrongfully convicted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.821.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-20", "file": "debates1925-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce0e021ec9a8af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Colonel Day?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "o be made to enjoy the privilege of picking oakum. We are often told in this House that there is not a class war on. Listening to this discussion this morning, I could not help feeling what a clear illustration it was of the fact that there is a class war on, because, in the main, this discussion has been looked at by hon. Members opposite from the point of view of the wealthy motor owners.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.826.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-20", "file": "debates1925-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce0e021ec9a8af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.836.0", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "preceding_text": "a heap of photographers dodging in front of them. It must be very disconcerting to them, and it will be some time before they can recover their mental equanimity. Further, I do not think it is in keeping with the dignity of the court that it should be used as a studio. If we are to allow this sort of thing to go on in law courts, why should we not allow it in the galleries of the House of Commons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-20", "file": "debates1925-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce0e021ec9a8af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "n with the Amendment that the Home Secretary is to propose later, the Clause will be open to very grave abuse. We have all laughed and made fun about this, but it is a fact that people have already been kidnapped in this country, and within very recent times. A certain gentleman known as a member of the Communist party was taken from a railway carriage, entertained in a pub all night under duress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-20", "file": "debates1925-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "2ce0e021ec9a8af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "House that the ordinary man is not a lawyer, and yet he is expected to understand the law and, understanding it, to conform to it. In the first place, this Clause seems to me to be drawn deliberately to give the widest possible latitude to the police in dealing with any offender or anyone believed to be an offender. It says that any person charged with any offence may be executed by any constable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-20a.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-23", "file": "debates1925-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "f70051413184fa76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-23a.905.6", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOLD COAST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister, in view of the serious situation in the Scottish shale industry, prepared to consider the holding of a public inquiry, so that the whole matter may be investigated? May I press for an answer, seeing that the subject is of importance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-23a.905.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-23", "file": "debates1925-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "f70051413184fa76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-23a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "e vote on this question, but I do not despair of showing the country the irrational character of the right hon. Gentleman's behaviour over this Bill. Rates off machinery; quite right! Reduce the burden upon industry, enable industry to carry on. to produce at cheaper prices, to encourage our export trade—that is sound. But is not the case for sewers far stronger? Encourage your export trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-23a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-23", "file": "debates1925-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "f70051413184fa76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-23a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "l character of the right hon. Gentleman's behaviour over this Bill. Rates off machinery; quite right! Reduce the burden upon industry, enable industry to carry on. to produce at cheaper prices, to encourage our export trade—that is sound. But is not the case for sewers far stronger? Encourage your export trade. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members Laugh, but they have no experience of living in slums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-23a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-23", "file": "debates1925-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "f70051413184fa76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-23a.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or no pits!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I am not very hopeful of making my meaning clear. If there is a colliery undertaking that has sunk one pit or six pits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-23a.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-23", "file": "debates1925-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "f70051413184fa76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-23a.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are such!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I am not very hopeful of making my meaning clear. If there is a colliery undertaking that has sunk one pit or six pits—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Or no pits!\"]—I do not know what is meant by a colliery undertaking that has sunk no pits. That is, clearly, not a colliery undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-23a.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-23", "file": "debates1925-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "f70051413184fa76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-23a.1049.3", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is frequent\"!", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "in I will try to do so. A colliery company which has not sunk a pit has not, in my opinion, a hereditament for the purpose of rating. As long as it is merely on paper it is not a hereditament, but when the company begins to sink a pit then there is a hereditament to be rated according to the ordinary measure of rating. The hon. Gentleman contemplates a state of things which I do not know to exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-23a.1049.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-24", "file": "debates1925-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9980421fdf7d25ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1122.3", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "The question I asked is about the Board of Trade method of compiling the figures which the Parliamentary Secretary has admitted are based on wholesale prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-24", "file": "debates1925-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9980421fdf7d25ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1126.6", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1126.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-24", "file": "debates1925-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9980421fdf7d25ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KADAVER FACTORIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I cannot believe any public interest is served by further questions on this story. I have given the House the fullest information that is in my possession in the hope that the hon. Members will be satisfied with what I have said,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-24", "file": "debates1925-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9980421fdf7d25ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1221.6", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "The. Government are basing their arguments for this Bill upon that assumption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1221.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-24", "file": "debates1925-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9980421fdf7d25ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1280.6", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "preceding_text": "the words to the desirability of adopting existing boundaries where possible, and. This Clause is a very serious one from the point of view of rural district councils, and of rural districts generally. Hon. Members on the Labour Benches are apt to laugh at anything having to do with the counties, and to say that they are inhabited by farmers and landowners, of both of whom they speak with a sneer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1280.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-24", "file": "debates1925-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9980421fdf7d25ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1301.3", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": " may not care to go through the rough and tumble of a contested election, but who nevertheless have had a good deal of experience, and I am ready to admit that some provision should be made for persons of that kind to serve on these committees. The great thing we have to keep before us in forming a body of this kind is to get the best body we can and to get as many interests represented as we can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-24", "file": "debates1925-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9980421fdf7d25ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1304.0", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "s proposed to-night in this Clause we really are going back. I do not quite understand the Parliamentary Secretary taking up the attitude he has taken on the subject, because he knows perfectly well that the present arrangement in London—and this Bill may some day apply to London—by which the council elects the valuation committee and the assessment committee has worked extremely well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-24", "file": "debates1925-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9980421fdf7d25ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1304.0", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ll. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] The Parliamentary Secretary knows that the arrangement has worked extremely well in London. I cannot for the life of me understand why you should want to have some of the committee from outside. It is suggested that hon. Members opposite want to bring in people of experience. Experience of what? In owning property or in having some vested interests? I should like to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-24", "file": "debates1925-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9980421fdf7d25ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1304.0", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "able interest of that which will come up for assessment. I want further to say this: That there are too many of this kind of committees set up—these kind of mixed committees of elected and non-elected persons. I do not believe any one of them works really satisfactorily. In London we have got a sort of hybrid body managing the docks, and they manage them in a perfectly unsatisfactory manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-24", "file": "debates1925-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9980421fdf7d25ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1304.0", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Everybody knows it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "t further to say this: That there are too many of this kind of committees set up—these kind of mixed committees of elected and non-elected persons. I do not believe any one of them works really satisfactorily. In London we have got a sort of hybrid body managing the docks, and they manage them in a perfectly unsatisfactory manner. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Yes, in quite an unsatisfactory manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-24", "file": "debates1925-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9980421fdf7d25ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "ave been formed in London, people have had every opportunity of coming before them, and most of them have gone away very well satisfied. I should say that we have had fewer appeals than any borough in London. I do not see why the London practice in regard to these committees should not be extended to the provinces, but the fact is that the landlords and the landowners and the Farmers' Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-11-24", "file": "debates1925-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "9980421fdf7d25ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1326.3", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "We will vote ironically.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "It would seem that the Amendment was ironical. Ought I to put it to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-24a.1326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-25", "file": "debates1925-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "c41a026fc08f2e4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REID", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REID", "preceding_text": "ills and experienced a painless death. But I, and those who supported the Bill on that occasion, had the satisfaction of hearing from the Government of the day that they intended, in consequence of our introducing that Bill, to set up a Departmental Committee to look into the whole question, and we flatter ourselves that this particular Clause is part of the finding of that Departmental Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-25", "file": "debates1925-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "c41a026fc08f2e4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1458.0", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS.: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. OLIVER", "preceding_text": " to relate, some months afterwards we find the state of trade as bad as ever. To-night it has been put forward that if we will only derate machinery it will be such a great impetus to trade that the wheels of industry will again commence to go round, but in some towns to derate machinery will represent an increase in the rents of working class houses of something equivalent to one shilling a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-25", "file": "debates1925-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "c41a026fc08f2e4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLAREN", "preceding_text": " their advantage here—if they remain obdurate and quiet in these circumstances, then, much as I agree with the principle embodied in this Clause, I oppose the Clause, because I refuse to give the manufacturers of this country any relief on their machinery until they are prepared like men to come out with us and give us a quid pro quo , something in return, and support us in a positive policy", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-25", "file": "debates1925-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "c41a026fc08f2e4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLAREN", "preceding_text": "thout imposing hardship on the poorer members of the community. That you are going to do, and so long as you maintain that position, I am against the Clause, because those who are asking for it have turned, and will always turn, a deaf ear to us who ask for a fairer system of taxation. This is no matter to be played with. You are trying to cope with unemployment which is costing millions of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-25", "file": "debates1925-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "c41a026fc08f2e4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLAREN", "preceding_text": "s turn, a deaf ear to us who ask for a fairer system of taxation. This is no matter to be played with. You are trying to cope with unemployment which is costing millions of money. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps hon. Gentlemen opposite who can make jeers at these remarks would not be quite so funny if they were standing in a queue in the morning with no breakfast. This unemployment is steadily going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-25", "file": "debates1925-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "c41a026fc08f2e4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1469.0", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " logical argument. I only wish that I had the power of stating the case as clearly, and I only wish that ho had the power of carrying out his logical argument to its logical conclusion. We who support this Clause—and supporters are to be found in all parties in this House—support it because we believe that if carried and put into effect it will have the tendency to reduce unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-25", "file": "debates1925-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "c41a026fc08f2e4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1469.0", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Income Tax!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "#8212;support it because we believe that if carried and put into effect it will have the tendency to reduce unemployment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Hear me out. Our argument is that the rating of machinery is an overhead charge on the costs of production of any article, exactly like management expenses, advertisements or the charges now levied under the Pension Acts of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-25", "file": "debates1925-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "c41a026fc08f2e4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1469.0", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "unemployment men are paid for jobs at starvation wages, that owing to unemployment poverty is getting worse and worse, and the standard of living is going down. He knows that this is due to unemployment. He sees that unemployment can be reduced by this Clause and by carrying this Clause further. If the right hon. Gentleman really wants to abolish unemployment, will he not come along with us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-25", "file": "debates1925-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "c41a026fc08f2e4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1472.0", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "I want to say what I think will happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-25", "file": "debates1925-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "c41a026fc08f2e4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"11.30.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the further Consideration of the Bill, as amended, be now adjourned.\" We have now finished 49 Clauses. I have been twitted for not having read the Bill. I ask the House whether we can be expected to go through more than 50 Clauses of this Bill after three days of exceptionally heavy work. On the first day we sat until 2 a.m., on the second day until after 1 a.m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-25", "file": "debates1925-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "c41a026fc08f2e4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ting Amendments from its own side without telling the Opposition that it intended to do so. That is not the ordinary way of doing business in this House. In the interests of everyone, it is impossible to go on sitting late night after night, every day in the week, in the second week of the Session. It is exceptionally hard on people on the Front Bench. I know perfectly well that tempers get short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-25", "file": "debates1925-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "c41a026fc08f2e4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1544.2", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Before asking why these expenses should be taken out of the poor rate, may I inquire how far the Government propose to go? Under this drastic system by which we cannot move to report Progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-25", "file": "debates1925-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "c41a026fc08f2e4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1556.0", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " sort of reply, after the thought that he has given to this matter. I do not know that the Minister is too courteous to his own supporters, and I should be glad, as one who has studied this Bill fairly closely, if he would give us some reply. I hope he will not follow the same policy with his own supporters as he follows with Members on this side of the House, of giving them very little attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-25a.1556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1567.2", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "t of the meals, and I will take any day which hon. Members like. Here are the meals on one day: Breakfast: Porridge, bacon, tomatoes, bread, margarine and tea. Dinner: Roast beef, potatoes, cabbage and rice pudding. Tea: Stewed fruit, custard, cake, bread and margarine, jam and tea. Supper: Bread, cheese and cocoa. In these circumstances, I think the suggestions of starvation are wholly unfounded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1567.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1602.9", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Will the right hon. Gentleman promise that no transfers will be made to the southern yards from these condemned yards until this discussion has taken place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1602.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1641.3", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "preceding_text": "tever may be our political faith in this House, whatever our differences may be, I think there is a general opinion in the House that the Prime Minister is candid, is sincere, and certainly is not lacking in sympathy. But when I read a passage such as that I am going to quote from his Brighton speech, I begin to wonder whether his sympathy is the sympathy of wind or the real sympathy of the heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "Very well, I will deal with the least, and I shall hope to demonstrate that it is the least without any shadow of doubt.. Therefore, we have the Prime Minister apparently looking upon 1,250,000 unemployed as quite a minor thing—just a small thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is your interpretation of them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "have the Prime Minister apparently looking upon 1,250,000 unemployed as quite a minor thing—just a small thing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO! \"] What do words mean? The Prime Minister speaks plainly. The Prime Minister does, not make rash statements. He knows what the English language is; he knows how to use it, and these are his words. They are not mine. They are the Prime Minister's own words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should we accept them distorted by you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "hing—just a small thing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO! \"] What do words mean? The Prime Minister speaks plainly. The Prime Minister does, not make rash statements. He knows what the English language is; he knows how to use it, and these are his words. They are not mine. They are the Prime Minister's own words—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is your interpretation of them.] You can interpret them as you like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ke. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should we accept them distorted by you?\"] As I have no intention of distorting them, I will read the words again. Bear in mind that nearly 90 per cent. of the workers of this country are employed; but two consequences flow from that small percentage of the whole that is unemployed to-day. I will touch on the human aspect last. There are the words, and it would take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " of the whole that is unemployed to-day. I will touch on the human aspect last. There are the words, and it would take— [ Interruption ]. Really, hon. Members ought to be better sportsmen. Let me deal now with another speech of the Prime Minister. I like to quote authority, because it is well recognised in this House, and I want to demonstrate, if I ran, exactly what I mean when I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1644.4", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh. oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "stors of money have stability. The investors of their labour have neither stability nor security, nor do they meet with generosity. May I turn to the history of this question as it has unrolled itself during the last few years? We had not been in office more than six weeks before we were attacked for not having solved the problem of unemployment. We never made a more definite promise in our lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1644.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1644.4", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "nionist party have made. They made two. Their first promise to the country was that if they were given the opportunity of adopting Protection they would solve the problem of unemployment. They said that was the only solution. Then they said: \"Oh, never mind that, we know it is the only solution, but if you send us back to power we will scrap our principles and not put our solution into operation.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1644.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "n game is played. Then we have the President of the Hoard of Trade, who has a very important Department. We would like to know what it is going to do to get us some employment. We see no evidence of it so far. It is perfectly true that in the course of the next week or two the President of the Board of Trade might tax gas mantles, whether inverted or perpendicular. We want a little more than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who by?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "sands of men at- wages but permanently enrich the country, developing it and making it infinitely more efficient. Are the Government doing anything there? The Prime Minister said he did not propose to make any prophecies, he did not intend to paint any rosy pictures, but merely to make to the House a statement of the fact that the Government have had a practical scheme worked out for them. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1651.3", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "schemes for employing unemployed people. I venture to say that he himself cannot employ painters to paint his offices without the permission of another Government Department; but the Minister of Transport can initiate schemes, the Minister of Health can do a great deal through local authorities, and the Secretary of State for the Colonies can help very greatly with schemes of Colonial development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1654.0", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain MACMILLAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain MACMILLAN", "preceding_text": " figures to support the main argument which he put forward. He took the live register which gives the figures in the return of people registered at the Exchanges. There is a feeling that that figure can be lessened by the disallowing of claims, but the figure given for the live register includes the majority of those men and women whose claims have been disallowed but who continue on the register.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tory Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "e trade of the world is the same as it was in 1913, and ours is 74 per cent. Let me give another figure. Between 1921 and 1922 our export trade went up by 19 per cent., which means that there was a recovery. Between 1922 and the end of 1923 it went up by 5.6 per cent. It was still recovering. In 1924 it went up again by 1 per cent. Take the 10 months trading of this year. It is down by 1 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "try to know perfectly well that Governments as long as they have a majority can, somehow or other, run to the end of their tether. I am not criticising the particular majority which is in office to-day more than any other party majority. I have often seen some of my hon. Friends of the Labour party voting for things which they did not believe in in the least, in order to maintain party discipline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Minister of Transport!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": ", I begged the Government to give us some sort of answer as to what they were going to do. My right hon. Friend the late Chancellor of the Exchequer had set up a committee for the purpose of investigating certain schemes. There were definite schemes on a very large scale. What answer was given on that occasion by the right hon. Gentleman representing the Government? I forget which Minister it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "y to the principle of unemployment insurance. That is another part of this grave charge. What are the principles of insurance? The Motion involves a suggestion of the most absurd kind. Take life insurance—not many people would wish to give it to the family of a suicide. Take fire insurance. People who set fire to their own houses are not considered eligible under a fire insurance to benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a disgraceful comparison!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ay from his work. But it does not mean that if hon. Members, or I, for instance, have a slight headache that we can keep away from work and claim health insurance. Many of our families would turn us out under those circumstances. There is a reasonable limit in everything. The man who is really in order in getting the benefit of health insurance is not the man who has got some slight indisposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "keep away from work and claim health insurance. Many of our families would turn us out under those circumstances. There is a reasonable limit in everything. The man who is really in order in getting the benefit of health insurance is not the man who has got some slight indisposition. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a disgraceful comparison!\"] Precisely the same applies in regard to Unemployment Insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "to be a person who is genuinely seeking work, capable of it, and unable to get it. If there is reason to believe that he can get work, or there is reason to believe that he does not need extended benefit, then it is not carrying out the principles of insurance to give it. Hon. Members opposite would seem to wish to try and turn the scheme into a gigantic system of poor relief simply because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about steel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "down this afternoon prepared to curse; he should have remained to bless. In the first place, it is quite clear that with the growth in population we have got over 200,000 more men employed in this country than a year ago. There is no doubt of that. I recognise the improvement, but I regret as much as the right hon. Gentlemen opposite, or anyone else in this House, the depression in the coal trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Reparation ships!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "if any of us cries \"stinking fish.\" There is no question as to employment being bettor in this country generally. In the cotton trade there is an improvement, and a distinct one. In the woollen trade there is an improvement, and a distinct one. In the iron and steel trade there is an improvement, quite slight at present, but perceptible. The shipbuilding trade is the one that has been hardest hit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who closed it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " schemes which are sound in themselves they ought to do so. Here I pay my tribute at once to the right hon. Gentlemen who were responsible for the Trade Facilities scheme and the Exports Credits scheme. They have done well, and I think those who introduced those schemes should have all thanks. In that connection what have we done? To start with, we have reopened the market for foreign loans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1704.1", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "That is the reason why the Prime Minister has given an additional grant of £40 for demonstration houses which are not to be erected by building labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1710.1", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major SALMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major SALMON", "preceding_text": "ards. On the other hand, the employé has to recognise that he has got to do his share in creating and in helping to try to regain the trade of the country. Industry suffers from time to time from strikes and lock-outs. I want to recall to hon. Members opposite that only a few days ago all quarters of the House were out with the idea of applauding the Locarno Agreement for international peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BRASS", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BRASS", "preceding_text": "hinery plants as compared with the period before the War. That has happened all over the world, with the result that it has seriously affected our export trade. As the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs said, our export trade at present is about three-quarters of what it was before the War. I read a very interesting book the other day published by the Federation of British Industries —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1724.0", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROY WILSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the maker of the jam?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROY WILSON", "preceding_text": "ry heavy import duty on those Colonies of 20 per cent. ad valorem. There are high freights, insurance, overhead expenses, and a profit required from those foreign branches, and I am satisfied in my own mind that that is a fair example, which I commend to the attention of the Food Council, and it is only one of many which show that the prices of the necessaries of life are too high in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1728.2", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "preceding_text": "I want to say to the right hon. Gentleman that one of the things which has made our people distrust politicians was, that he began the rot by making more promises than he ever could fulfill. He came before us, as a mining community, not only in Durham and Northumberland, and promised that he would not only take us to the gates of Heaven but take us to the Welsh hills, which appeared to be greater.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1732.0", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So are we all! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "t know whether his humorous sallies at the expense of my right hon. Friend the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) will help us very much to solve the great problem of unemployment, or that a very great contribution towards that solution was contributed by him. I would say that on this subject I have heard so many Debates of this character in this House that I am a little weary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1732.0", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yon said that last time!\" and interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "ve promised and what they have not done in this matter. I do not think that a member of the Labour party is exactly the person to hurl brickbats at. the heads of other people in this respect. We have not advanced a great deal. I will say this: that everything which has been done and which is operating to-day for the benefit of the unemployed was the creation of the Cabinet of which I was a member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1732.0", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"What about your own firm?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "ad of giving inadequate benefits. The workers would certainly prefer to use their money in order to obtain work than accept an adequate dole. I agree with what has been said in this respect from the Labour Benches on that aspect of the case, though some of the observations and interruptions are irrelevant to any discussion on this subject, whilst they are very difficult perhaps to deal with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1733.1", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were a member of the Government who did it.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "gold standard policy must create, at any rate for a certain time, more unemployment. The working man is entitled to say to those who have created unemployment, \"You have got to find us employment, to make employment. \"Take the shipbuilding industry itself. It has suffered directly from the action of the Government, suffered from the taking over of German ships as reparation. No body can deny that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!' and \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " is something else, and it is that any hon. Member who reads the American newspapers will agree with me that nothing has done our reputation more damage in America than the only very partially true statements that are made, particularly by hon. Members opposite, about what they call the \"dole.\" As they represent the dole, it is a piece of the most impudent State charity that has ever been devised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ee with me that nothing has done our reputation more damage in America than the only very partially true statements that are made, particularly by hon. Members opposite, about what they call the \"dole.\" As they represent the dole, it is a piece of the most impudent State charity that has ever been devised. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!' and \"Name!\"] It is the argument that the dole is something for nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Hour. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "n take, the numbers recorded at Employment Exchanges as unemployed. On the 28th July, 1924, at the end of the protective period, the number was 15,969, and on the 27th July, 1925, it was 13,911. I am, for the moment at any rate, a passive counter in the hands of the Front Government Bench. I take the figures which they have presented to us. Then Protection came in again, his wonderful salve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " of the Front Government Bench. I take the figures which they have presented to us. Then Protection came in again, his wonderful salve—[Hour. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] —the batteries have been unmasked again—for industrial ills. And this is what it means in figures. It is the counting side of this. Until 6th October, 1935, after the McKenna Duties had been in operation again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the total employed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "for industrial ills. And this is what it means in figures. It is the counting side of this. Until 6th October, 1935, after the McKenna Duties had been in operation again—[ Interruption. ] Is the philosophy that to begin with it is going to deteriorate the position of labour? That is not what you told us before. The 13,900 unemployed became 15,200. The same is the case with the lace industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Reduce rates!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "is the use of laying down those mere doctrines which are perfectly sound? How is he applying them? He is applying them by ceasing to discriminate as to what relief work is not for the reduction of industrial capital and what relief work is. That is the whole point, that he and I—he there now, a Labour Minister if he was going to succeed him from this side— would have to do. What is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1743.1", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Why did not you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "y, rich or poor, should live without doing service to the community, without working either by muscle or by brain, is one of the most immoral ideas that can come to infest, and poison the social mind of people. But what are you going to do? This is a matter upon which one would like all sorts of ideas to come up. This is what one expects Governments to keep on trying and trying to get away out of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1743.1", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "service to the community, without working either by muscle or by brain, is one of the most immoral ideas that can come to infest, and poison the social mind of people. But what are you going to do? This is a matter upon which one would like all sorts of ideas to come up. This is what one expects Governments to keep on trying and trying to get away out of. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"Why did not you?\"] We did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I know that it does not say that they may search the house, but when you go to arrest people and you see things lying about—.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1761.0", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I am sure you objected to it. If a future Socialist Government were to attempt to send a man to search or arrest you, without his producing a warrant giving him authority for doing so, this House would not hold to it, because your sense of justice and fair play would be outraged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1761.0", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Clause. I suggest that in another place words should be put in providing that the person must produce his authority as a constable. I am told that under the Regulations a constable is supposed to carry his authority. It does not say so here. If any of us were kidnapped, as Mr. Pollitt was kidnapped, if hon. Gentlemen had been kidnapped by Socialists, the kidnappers would not have got away with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1761.2", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Are we not to have any reply from the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1764.5", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A special constable?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "Any constable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1764.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1777.0", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TITHE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "burden of this impost. It was a burden on Scottish agriculture, and it would be equally a burden on English agriculture. Lord Younger of Leckie described it as a monstrous proposal. It had been spoken of as though it would be no burden on agriculture at all, but by the evidence of Churchmen and Statesmen they could not get away from the fact that tithe was a burden on agriculture. John Knox—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-26", "file": "debates1925-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "f570898dc9d60abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1777.0", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TITHE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": " as well as the richest lord, in proportion to their respective consumption of the articles un which tithe is levied. My greatest objection to the Bill is this. You are taking it away from the basis on which it has rested, and in 85 years you are forming a fund which is declared to be for the benefit of the incumbents. You are really transferring this from the control of Parliament. I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-26a.1777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1804.2", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of any general desire for such an installation in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1804.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1804.8", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH ERS", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH ERS", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and gallant Gentleman aware of the growing desire among the public to hear the Debates in this Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1804.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1805.6", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Or the Fascisti?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "Could not the memorial be put in charge of the O.M.S.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1805.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1882.0", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"!", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "preceding_text": "Every Member of the Committee will agree with me when I say that the discussion of this Clause in Committee was very meagre. I think the discussion in Committee did not take more than six or seven minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1888.1", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " that the hon. and gallant Member was arguing that the concession in future should be one-fourth of one-fourth, because under the Bill one-fourth is universal. The argument of the hon. and gallant Member was that agricultural land inside the borough of Pontefract Park should be rated not at one-fourth but at one-sixteenth of its value. That is going a bit too far even in favour of Pontefract Park.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1928.1", "colnum": "1928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "atepayers by reason of the fact that machinery goes unrated. Therefore we have the strongest case for making a demand for some relief in urban areas. When we see the Government making this concession, the sequel of a hundred other concessions to the landed interest, I am inclined to wonder whether there is any limit whatever to the appetite of the landlords or to the concessions of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1955.1", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEOGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEOGWOOD", "preceding_text": "granting of 50 per cent. relief to agriculture than the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George). At that time the whole Liberal party opposed vigorously the temporary measure to exempt agricultural land from 50 per cent. of the rates. The arguments then used are as sound to-day as they were then. It is a gift to the landlords of this country. Does anybody deny it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1955.1", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEOGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will the right hon. Gentleman give an example showing that the rents have been raised?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEOGWOOD", "preceding_text": "rge). At that time the whole Liberal party opposed vigorously the temporary measure to exempt agricultural land from 50 per cent. of the rates. The arguments then used are as sound to-day as they were then. It is a gift to the landlords of this country. Does anybody deny it? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] I am glad to hear some hon. Members opposite still denying it, because it has become almost a truism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1958.0", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RILEY", "preceding_text": "ctly well. The argument has been challenged as to whether rents increase as a result of concessions of this kind. The Corn Production Act had exactly the same effect as a concession made by the Relief of Rates on agricultural land. During the period of 1917–1921 we know that, in consequence of a subsidy to the occupiers of arable land, rents rose from 20 to 30 per cent. and that is admitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1974.0", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "No doubt the sallies of the hon. Member are thrown out in order to cover the extraordinary division which appears to exist in his own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1978.0", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": " is simply placing the burden upon the small householder, shop property, and property of that character. The argument for the de-rating of machinery is because the different trades use different types of machine. According to the output of the trade and the amount of the capital invested, machinery varies from industry to industry. But this class of argument does not apply to the farming industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1979.1", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "t by this process they are simply giving secret subsidies to agriculture. If they want to subsidise agriculture, why do not they come out in a straightforward, honest way and give £l or £2 an acre, so that the electorate and the country should know what they are doing? But this method of using political power through a Bill of this sort, which attracts very little public attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1995.0", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "nt committees. Professional men are just as eager to earn an honest penny as anyone else. It is sheer nonsense to say that we cannot get anyone. The other point is: Why should this be confined to one specific profession? These are not the only people capable of valuing property. I am not at all certain that they can value it as well as a couple of ordinary dock labourers, or other ordinary people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-11-30", "file": "debates1925-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "351cf7edab05b212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1995.0", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not quite follow your argument.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Yes, ordinary people, because, after all. these people do bring fresh minds and unprejudiced to bear upon the subject. Hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway smile. But these ordinary people would not attempt to make figures prove other than they could prove. I have seen men sitting on Assessment Committees twisting valuers inside out. The matter should be left to Quarter Sessions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-11-30a.1995.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2038.2", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Seeing that the right hon. Gentleman has admitted in his answer that the co-operative societies are receiving some benefit from which the ordinary shopkeeper is precluded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2038.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2039.3", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh, Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the supplementary question of the hon. Member for Dumbarton (Mr. Kirkwood)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2048.6", "colnum": "2048", "heading": "SUSPENSION OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. M. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. M. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "I wish to put before you, Sir, a point of Order in relation to a Private Notice Question which I sent to the Minister of Pensions this morning, after notifying Mr. Speaker in accordance with the regulations. I have had a letter from Mr. Speaker, who says he cannot accept this question, because it deals with a private case. The case was one of a man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2048.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2048.6", "colnum": "2048", "heading": "SUSPENSION OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. M. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. M. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "om Mr. Speaker, who says he cannot accept this question, because it deals with a private case. The case was one of a man—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] I am not going into the merits of the case, except to say that I notified the Minister of Pensions of the case a month ago. I received a letter to-day that he could not give me a reply, and I want to know when I can have information upon this case?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2048.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2048.6", "colnum": "2048", "heading": "SUSPENSION OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. M. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. M. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "h a private case. The case was one of a man—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] I am not going into the merits of the case, except to say that I notified the Minister of Pensions of the case a month ago. I received a letter to-day that he could not give me a reply, and I want to know when I can have information upon this case? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] A man in the asylum had his wife's pension reduced!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2048.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "SUSPENSION OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "I want to be fair to you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I have no wish to contest your ruling, but I demand from the Minister of Pensions an answer as to why he has forced this man into an asylum-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "SUSPENSION OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "I want to be fair to you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I have no wish to contest your ruling, but I demand from the Minister of Pensions an answer as to why he has forced this man into an asylum-[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]- and reduced his wife's pension by 3s., which I say is a disgrace. I want to ask-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "SUSPENSION OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "I want to be fair to you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I have no wish to contest your ruling, but I demand from the Minister of Pensions an answer as to why he has forced this man into an asylum-[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]- and reduced his wife's pension by 3s., which I say is a disgrace. I want to ask-[Hon. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]-I am going to see that this House-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "SUSPENSION OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "ontest your ruling, but I demand from the Minister of Pensions an answer as to why he has forced this man into an asylum-[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]- and reduced his wife's pension by 3s., which I say is a disgrace. I want to ask-[Hon. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]-I am going to see that this House-[HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"]-contrary to the constitution of this country and by your action these things are going on-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2049.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2050.2", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "SUSPENSION OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "( who remained standing ) I want this case gone into now, because the Minister of Pensions has held it up for a month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2050.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2050.3", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "SUSPENSION OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Name!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "( who remained standing ) I want this case gone into now, because the Minister of Pensions has held it up for a month. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] I am going to state this case now, and I am entitled to bring it forward here. I am going to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House in order to have this matter gone into immediately, and I ask you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2050.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2053.13", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "SUSPENSION OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "Do we understand that with this pack of howling dogs we are not entitled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2053.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2053.13", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "SUSPENSION OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "Do we understand that with this pack of howling dogs we are not entitled—[ Interruption. ] We do not mind the Chair, but we do object to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2053.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2053.16", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "SUSPENSION OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GEE", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2053.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "s itself exclusively to books, is always the adviser of potentates who are trembling in the balance. But what we have to consider is, not only whether a technical breach of the law has been made, but whether the prosecution itself is for the good of the State. The people who were prosecuted the other day happen to be Communists. They hold doctrines with which the Labour party is in conflict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " which the Labour party is in conflict—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"]—far more in conflict than the party of the hon. Member, as I shall prove before I sit down. The accused persons were Communists. So far as my colleagues are concerned, so far as our conferences are concerned, our position has been made perfectly clear. We are not only not Communists, but we are actively opposed to Communism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disturbance by you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "we are very glad to see back, however much we disagree with him—\"lest the vigilant eye of the Home Secretary, or the vigilant eye of the man in blue, should overlook us, we are actually wearing badges in the public streets, and proclaiming in the open light of day that we belong to those gentlemen who are drilling and are arming for the purpose of creating disturbance should occasion arise.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We will very soon!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "\"lest the vigilant eye of the Home Secretary, or the vigilant eye of the man in blue, should overlook us, we are actually wearing badges in the public streets, and proclaiming in the open light of day that we belong to those gentlemen who are drilling and are arming for the purpose of creating disturbance should occasion arise.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Disturbance by you!\"] So far, you have not gaoled me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "over, the Home Secretary himself, who, to judge by a speech he delivered at an amateur dramatic society, has had something to do with it, also presents a very striking contrast. I know what hon. and right hon. Gentlemen are going to do about this. We have had echoes of it already. Because we are standing for the right of publication of opinions with which in this case we profoundly disagree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " force and that those who do not hold that economic power must consider a counteracting force. Further, he has a right to say that Toryism never respects Parliament except when it suits its convenience, and that in the event of a real democratic majority being returned to this House—it is not fair to hon. Members opposite in that form—that in the event of a Labour party majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They would run away!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "n 1925. Seven of the 12 are in gaol under very peculiar circumstances. They are not in because they refused to observe orderly conduct, but they are in because they were asked: \"Will you give up this party? Will you give up this association?\" I should dearly like it if hon. Members opposite would whisper to mo the answer and tell me what they would do if they were members of an organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ind of question. There is another result of the trial. I think the Attorney-General said—I am not sure, but it does not matter—that a sum of £14,000 had been spent some time or other, that they had a bank balance or a bank expenditure of £12,000 or £14,000. What did they get for it? It does not matter for this purpose whether it came from Moscow Or London or North Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2083.1", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Australia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "slated the pence into the pounds, and now that they have intervened the donors of the £14,000 have got value for their money. What was the situation which the Government had to face? There is no red peril. This has been an insignificant agitation. It has been, as I have just said, troublesome. It has tried to worm its way into both the industrial and the political side of the Labour movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2083.1", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACDONALD", "preceding_text": "d Communists. That is a reference to the Home Secretary. He whooped, he swore in 1912. He has whooped in 1925, and on both occasions he was an aider and a better of sedition. He said on the eve of the trial, or whilst the trial was going on, speaking at Isleworth: When the trial is over, those of you who are Communists will be ashamed of yourselves. How did he know? Was he in touch with the Judge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2085.3", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "Was he, in touch with the Judge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2085.3", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "t when the trial was over such and such a thing would happen, nobody will think anything about it. It is a good piece of political exaggeration and anticipation. But the right hon. Gentleman is not a back bencher. He is the head of the Department. He is the Home Secretary, and what business has he got a day or perhaps two days before the judgment was delivered to anticipate what it would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2085.3", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor could you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " of my country, and therefore, right to the marrow of my bones, I object to the proceedings which the Government have taken. I think it is a political trial, inspired by political motives. Old ladies must be frightened in order that young Tories may be elected. An asset far too valuable to be allowed to disappear is the Communist party, an asset to the Tory party, and you cannot get on without it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2085.3", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "All was prepared. Ambulances, medical staffs, gun running, everything to the last button. And there they are, a large number of them active participants in those events, every one of them beholden to the party which was responsible, and they are going to march into the Lobby in favour of constitutional action. The newspapers to-morrow morning will say we are a seditious and unconstitutional party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2086.0", "colnum": "2086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not know about that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "ich made me feel, as the right hon. Gentleman castigated me, sorry I had made it. There are very few of us who, in our long political career have not sometimes used, may I say, a \"damn,\" for which we are afterwards sorry. It is probably common on both sides of the House. I should like to say this in regard to that speech. I at all events was not involved in any of the activities that he mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2088.2", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is licence!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "his country. I think that the right hon. Gentleman will agree that there is, and there can be, no such thing as a general freedom of speech. There must be limits to the freedom. A general freedom of speech is obviously impossible. For instance, no one has the right to utter openly in freedom of speech libels on other people. That would be impossible. No one has the right openly to incite to crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2088.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2093.5", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right type?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "al to deal with that I do not want to make too long a speech. I think it is only fair that the House and the country should realise some of the matter which I have in my possession in regard to this. I will see whether I cannot place a White Paper on the Table of the House. I want to put before the House clearly the real necessity for preserving the right type of freedom of speech in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2093.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2093.5", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the view on this side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "o have thought. I may quote the statement made by Mr. Cramp at the Liverpool Conference of the Labour party:— The road upon which they would lead the international proletariat ends in national disaster. The peace they would achieve by their policy of world revolution and armed force is a peace of utter desolation and universal ruin. That is the view of one of the leaders of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2093.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2093.5", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "fter that prosecution last year, were bound to have regard to what was going on during the current year, and as Home Secretary I was bound to have regard to the reports of speeches and documents which came to me, week by week and month by month, in regard to this agitation. I was bound to have regard to the efforts which were made to incite the public at various places like Hyde Park Corner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2093.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2095.3", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You never proved it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "point which has been raised, I will give the right hon. Gentleman some explanation which he seemed to want in regard to the question of Moscow. Freedom of speech—and I want to make this perfectly clear—is one thing, but paying hired speakers, organised by a body outside this country in the sheer, definite determination to break up the Constitution of the country is quite another thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2095.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2096.0", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "No, no!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2097.4", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I beg the right hon. Gentleman's pardon, but I must give a direct contradiction to the statement that members of the Soviet Government are not members of the executive of the International at Moscow. I assure hon. Members that they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2097.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2097.4", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I beg the right hon. Gentleman's pardon, but I must give a direct contradiction to the statement that members of the Soviet Government are not members of the executive of the International at Moscow. I assure hon. Members that they are. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them!\"] There is Zinoviev.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2097.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2097.4", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I beg the right hon. Gentleman's pardon, but I must give a direct contradiction to the statement that members of the Soviet Government are not members of the executive of the International at Moscow. I assure hon. Members that they are. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them!\"] There is Zinoviev. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] There is Rykoff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2097.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2101.5", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ar to the Secretariat of the Communist International of Moscow from the Secretariat of the Communist party here: Our political bureau further wishes me to direct your attention to the somewhat unnecessary references made in the letter such as transmitting money by the secret channel, and to suggest that comrades responsible be warned of the necessity of being more discreet in their communications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2101.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2102.1", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "It goes on to say: He presented it to the Soup Kitchen Brigade. 6.0 P.M. The hon. Member and I have fought here side by side, and I want to let him know that these men are not really friends of his. They are not friends of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2102.1", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "It goes on to say: He presented it to the Soup Kitchen Brigade. 6.0 P.M. The hon. Member and I have fought here side by side, and I want to let him know that these men are not really friends of his. They are not friends of the Labour party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We know it!\"] We want the Labour party to realise what is being done by the Moscow Brigade here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2102.1", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Your action is undesirable; that is the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " trade unionists of this country, as I believe it to be, then support the action that the Government has taken, rather than come here this afternoon, as you have come here, and try to injure us, to blame us and at the same time to blame the victims of our policy. You cannot have it both ways. You must make up your minds whether this thing is a desirable thing in the interest of the country or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2108.0", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "t—is a member of the Second International. To-morrow the Socialist party here in Great Britain, which is affiliated with the Second International, may do something. Should we then go and fly at the throats of the Belgian Government and say, \"Your Minister is associated with this organisation; there is a conspiracy on the part of the Belgian Government to overthrow the Government of England.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2125.6", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that it means that someone in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2125.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2130.1", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member is talking about threats. Does he regard gun-running as a threat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "preceding_text": "No, because a prosecution would have been so extraordinarily stupid. But assume for a moment that there is an analogy between the Ulster propaganda and the Communist propaganda, it has no relevancy at all. It is suggested that the Liberal Government ought to have taken action then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2130.1", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A minority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "preceding_text": "f the Liberal Government in 1912 did not take the action hon. Members think it ought to have taken, why should a strong, popular Conservative Government in 1925 follow the course taken by the weak Liberal Government in 1912? We now have a strong Conservative Government on the full tide of its power and popularity, fortified and supported by the faith and confidence of the great mass of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2130.1", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You practise it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HURST", "preceding_text": "ng other men—not themselves—to revolution. And to encourage revolution in that way is entirely against public policy, and seems to me entirely inconsistent with what one would imagine to be the attitude of responsible leaders of a great party. We on this side believe that all this preaching of propaganda with regard to class warfare and revolution can only do harm. We believe in peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2138.2", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ight, that the things we want to do cannot be done by the methods of this House. Sir Travers Humphreys said something very like it at Bow Street—that we knew we could not accomplish the overthrow of capitalism by peaceful means. If once that is believed outside, you are really inciting people to revolution. It seems to be forgotten—I am always saying this to my Communist friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2145.0", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRACE", "preceding_text": "h which I feel they are anxious to show now. During the last Election many of the extremists attached to the party opposite did not show the same zeal for free speech that hon. Members have shown to-day. Not only that, but in spite of the fact that a great many of their political opponents were not able to get a fair bearing, not a single hon. or right hon. Member opposite made any single protest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2157.1", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\" and \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "Gentleman. He has once more got the cheers of those extremists who elected him to his position. He is tending more and more to play the part of Kerensky. He knows the compulsory powers which they can exercise. He knows what they did with the councils of action in 1920. He knows perfectly well how they compelled him to abandon the Campbell prosecution and how they made him sign the \"Russian Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2159.0", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "ster stated with great eloquence, and I imagine with great conviction, that the proper way to deal with a problem of this kind was not to sit at home with folded arms and leave it to be dealt with by conferences. I do not think it is sufficiently realised to what extent the growth of this movement has created a spirit of unrest and depression throughout the whole length and breadth of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "t any rate a few thousands —if this is an illegal association? What is proposed with respect to their successors now that these 12 are in gaol? Are efforts to be made to suppress this association? Their papers are still printed and circulated. Depend upon it this week-end the membership of the Communist party will greatly increase and public sympathy for these men will he enormously aroused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Were they tried?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " Gladstone or Mr. Parnell. Pollitt and Parnell set up as parallel cases! The two names need only be mentioned to show the poverty of the argument with which the Home Secretary has tried to defend himself during the Debate this afternoon. Mr. Pollitt was kidnapped only a few months ago, but his offenders went unpunished. What is it to hon. Members opposite to kidnap a Communist.? It is only a joke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "fternoon. Mr. Pollitt was kidnapped only a few months ago, but his offenders went unpunished. What is it to hon. Members opposite to kidnap a Communist.? It is only a joke. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Were they tried?\"] That is the trouble. They were tried, and it is in the inequality of these verdicts, these decisions, that we have this deepening sense of injustice as between class and class in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2170.2", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Irish deportees?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "In the last quarter of a century it has often been my lot to defend the honour and reputation of many of His Majesty's subjects, but this is the first occasion on which I have had to appear arraigned before this High Court of the House of Commons to defend myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2170.2", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not what the Home Secretary said!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "fend myself. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Irish deportees?\"] I want to make this quite clear—that, whereas the Resolution seeks to condemn the action of the Government, it is right that I should tell the House at once that the. responsibility for this prosecution, both in its initiation and in its conduct, rests both by Statute and in fact upon the Attorney-General, and upon nobody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2170.2", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO; some of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "ress.\" Let me tell him I deliberately excluded any evidence as to any speech by any man who was prosecuted, and therefore his statement that they were prosecuted upon statements made in the heat of the moment is one which I think he will regret having made. The right hon. Gentleman seems indeed to live in a curious world of his own. He has told us that he had never heard of any of these prisoners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2170.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2176.4", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Englishman? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "he suggestion which is so freely and so loosely bandied about, that this is an interference with the right of free speech. If by free speech is meant the right to express an opinion about the existing state of society, about the desirability of a radical change, about the wickedness of the Government or of any particular class of society, that, of course, is the right which every Englishman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2176.4", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about 1913 in Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ould let off the man who dupes him by incitement to mutiny, because you would be \"interfering with his right of free speech\"! You would hang the murderer, but let off the man who preached murder to him, because his traditional right of free speech must not be taken away! No such doctrine has ever been practised in any free country, and Heaven forbid that it should ever gain ground in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2176.4", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The year, and the date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "the right hon. and learned Member for Spen Valley, one or two quotations which tend to supply the answer to that question? The earliest document which we had was the Second Congress of the Communist International, and the resolutions of the Communist International expressed enactment on every member of every Communist party all over the world. This gathering was held in Moscow, where all are held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2179.1", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "preceding_text": "They were all, in fact, held in Moscow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2179.3", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\" and Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "d the seizure of power by the working class, which has to set itself the first and most important task of suppressing the enemy and firmly establishing the new régime. The seizure of power by the Proletariat is nothing else than the destruction of the bourgeois State apparatus by the fighting organs of the Proletarian class struggle and the organisation of a new Proletarian class power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2179.3", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "BERS: \"Hear, hear\" and Laughter. ]—I am not responsible for the language— an essential part of the seizure of power by the working class is the destruction of the bourgeois monopoly of arms and the concentration of arms in the hands of the Proletariat. During the course of the struggle the main object in view must be the disarmament of the bourgeoisie and the arming of the Proletariat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2180.3", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Circulate it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "he House to address itself to is, \"Did these men incite the forces of the Crown to mutiny?\" because if they did, if they attempted to do that by publishing these documents, they were clearly guilty of trying to create revolution, and not merely expressing the right of free speech. I want again to quote one or two passages, first of all from the draft programme of the Young Communist International.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2180.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2182.3", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, that is a legal twist!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The right of free speech seems to be rather a one-sided idea. The House will notice that the exhortation is not merely, not to use their arms against the workers, but to use them only on behalf of their own class, which means, in Communist phraseology, to use them against the officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-01", "file": "debates1925-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b79936dcdcfd935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2182.3", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMUNIST PROSECUTION.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the men who stole the 'Herald' van!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " kind are unmasked, they shall be prosecuted in the Courts of Law. And, if those who are guilty of them can be proved to have committed that offence which the jury have here held that they have committed, then I think it is high time that the law should be vindicated, and that these treasonable practices should be put an end to. It has been said, What about the other members of the Communist body?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-01a.2182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2220.4", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major the Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major the Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "preceding_text": " should like to ask whether the hon. and gallant Gentleman does not agree that the sole aim of the Committee was to get at the truth of the conditions of the export of horses from this country? I should also like to ask whether, after having read the Report, he does not agree that the genuineness of the so-called \"faked film\" was only upheld on secondhand evidence? Also I should like to ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2220.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2222.5", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "Might I point out to the hon. Gentleman the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2222.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2239.4", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION (FOREIGN PAYMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "hich goes by the name of propaganda to-day: and that propaganda was possible simply because there was foreign money behind it. I chanced to be in Russia during the revolution. Not many Members of Parliament were. I was in Petrograd shortly afterwards, and one day I happened to be in the streets, and I saw a short, bearded man enter a house, go and open a window, and speak to the multitude outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2239.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2276.2", "colnum": "2276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "On that point I say I am not quoting from the evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2278.3", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Capital levy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "factories have been able to re-equip themselves with capital paid off in depreciated marks, and, therefore, although the German currency is to-day stabilised, yet there remains the advantage to the competing German industry that German manufacturers have their factories fully equipped and have been able in depreciated marks to write off capital costs and to start again with lower overhead charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2281.2", "colnum": "2281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ich were made abroad and imported into this country were sold at lower prices than those made in England. Not at all. They found that the Gillette razor, which apparently has a larger sale than any other imported razor, is actually sold at more than the ordinary English safety razor, and the reason why it has succeeded in gaining its market is that on the whole at its price it is a better article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2289.0", "colnum": "2289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SN0WDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SN0WDEN", "preceding_text": "ff-mongers, and increase trade, and reduce unemployment. The Minister of Health is not in his place. During the Recess he spoke in the North of England, and he made this statement—something of a platitude in tariff-mongering propaganda. He was entitled, he said, to point to the fact that wherever duties had been put on foreign imports, the results had been effective in increasing employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2289.0", "colnum": "2289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SN0WDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SN0WDEN", "preceding_text": "during the Debates on the lace duties, assuming the role of a prophet, said that in a very short time there would not be one unemployed lace-maker in Nottingham. I want to know what the hon. and gallant Baronet meant by that. Let us take the whole of our experience of the tariff. I need not deal with the McKenna Duties now, and the effect they have had in increasing the percentage of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2293.1", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The duties are now in operation, and the percentage was 18.7 in July, 1925.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2294.3", "colnum": "2294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But not all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " is that they become stronger competitors in the neutral markets. That is the explanation of facts both in the lace and silk trades since the imposition of these duties. In these the volume of our exports has largely declined. Let us turn now to another aspect of the case. The President of the Board of Trade, very wisely, I think, confined himself in his speech to reading extracts from the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2294.3", "colnum": "2294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take 1913!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "etained is over three-quarters of a million pounds. If hon. Members have the Report of the Committee on Cutlery before them, I should like to go back a little, quote a few figures, and compare different years. The year 1921, as everyone knows, was quite an abnormal year. We get something like normal trade if we take the years 1922–3–4, which show better what are the present tendencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2300.1", "colnum": "2300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "of the Protectionist policy of the Government. We shall oppose these proposals at every stage of this Bill, because they are not merely dishonest, but they are dangerous, and they will have all the disastrous results which I have put forward this afternoon. I know that we can make no impression upon Tariff Reformers opposite, and they will vote for these proposals regardless of arguments or facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2301.0", "colnum": "2301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"His benefit!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "preceding_text": "e Valley (Mr. Snowden), I believe that they know their trade better than he does, and they are unanimously of the opinion that a, 33⅓ per cent. duty will go a long way towards curing unemployment in that trade. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley said with great truth that every man is a Protectionist in his own trade, and why? Is this for his benefit or not for his benefit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2309.2", "colnum": "2309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": " the tax. The effect of that is, that there is a reduction in wages for the members of the class to which I belong, as expressed in the prices that they have to pay for the necessities of life. They must use gloves, or, at all events, I think they ought to have some opportunity to use gloves like other people. How can they get them with their wages? Trade is going down, unemployment is increasing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2311.0", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "be the worker, and not the consumer. We have a great deal talked about considering the consumer, but I am surprised at the Socialist party becoming champions of the lilies of the field and not realising that we in this country ought to have very little use for those who are consumers, and who are not engaged in productive industry of some kind or another by doing some kind of service to the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2316.0", "colnum": "2316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "s in this country supporting this or that fiscal view. They are impartial observations made by correspondents in foreign countries, and they prove, completely that we are right in saying that what the, right hon. Gentleman and the Undersecretary are doing is raising the cost of living of the poor in this country and thereby reducing the amount of money they have to spend and creating unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2316.0", "colnum": "2316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " party can grow, however small it may be, unless it sticks to its convictions. As far as numbers are concerned, we can certainly be derided. If hon. Members opposite believe that a general tariff will do good, why do not they go into the country and say, \"We will have a general tariff, and we will remain out of office until you consent to it?\" Instead of that, and in order to keep in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2319.1", "colnum": "2319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Will it give employment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2328.2", "colnum": "2328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": " of this proposal—and indeed as far as I am concerned these proposals are only the fringe of what is necessary—we are only asking for protection, and I am not the least ashamed to use the word, for the working man engaged in productive enterprise. If it is a fit and proper thing for organised labour to protect itself, and nobody objects to the admirable means by which it does so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2339.1", "colnum": "2339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did you give any instructions to the Gas Mantle Committee?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Member for West Swansea must settle that constitutional point with those who, at any rate for the time being, provide both the leadership and the sinews of war for his party. Then I was asked whether I had given any instructions to committees. I have given instructions to committees which are laid down in the White Paper, and I have given no other instructions of any sort or kind to any committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2348.2", "colnum": "2348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The question answers itself!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman's colleague one or two simple questions that we would like answered? Will the hon. Gentleman representing the Board of Trade ask the President if, during the course of the next general discussion on these duties, he will remember that he has been asked definitely to say what he means by an industry of substantial importance, because that is most vital to all these reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2352.6", "colnum": "2352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "An Hon MEMBER: \"And America!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "h has been adopted by the Socialist party, because they are the party which is supposed to represent the protection of the working man's wages and the prevention of sweating in this country. How can they come here to-night and say they are going to vote against the duties on cutlery, to name only one instance, when it is shown quite clearly that the wages in the competing country of Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2352.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2352.6", "colnum": "2352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More unemployment!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "nger hours and into a state of unemployment. It is my belief that not one of these duties will do one man, woman or child in this country any harm whatever, and that they are going to do a great many people a great deal of good. We have the examples before us. The same out. cry is raised about these duties that was raised about the Silk Duties, and we know what the effect of these duties has been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2352.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2352.6", "colnum": "2352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": ". It is only because I believe absolutely and firmly in the efficacy of the general tariff—I believe in the whole thing. Quite frankly I want to say to the Committee that I believe in the whole thing—and because I believe that the results of these taxes is going to be that they are going to show an advantage to this country that I am prepared to take my chance to see how they turn out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2352.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2352.6", "colnum": "2352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": " I had two votes in this House, I would give them every time in support of these duties. I would give them because I believe that the duties are going to be of considerable benefit to the working people of this country. They are going to find employment for people who are at present starving and out of work, and give them the opportunity by which they will eventually live happier and better lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2352.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2354.0", "colnum": "2354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": " these effects are. He knows that the result of inflation in Germany is that there is a lack of capital in every industry in Germany. He knows that it is almost impossible to get credit on any reasonable terms, and he knows that the rate of interest is rising to heights which would appear impossible in this country. I believe at the present moment the bank rate in Germany is 2 per cent. per month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2356.2", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was in 1919!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "out the investigation they originally intended. That is not in the Report, but it is well known, and it will not be contradicted. The Report refers to the Committee that went from Sheffield to Germany and reported that in the matter of plant, equipment, machinery, specialisation and facilities for massed production, Sheffield was not keeping her place in comparison with her competitors in Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2359.0", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " than many of the hon. Members who sit behind the right hon. Gentleman. It seems to me an extraordinary thing that all the speeches made to-day from the Opposition benches have been made by moderate Labour men, and have been more or less in accord with the speeches of the hon. and gallant Member for Leith and his friends. Speaking for myself as a whole-hogger Protectionist, I am not ashamed of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2359.0", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "age to the trade, as he alleged that the use of expensive machinery in Sheffield fac- tories had proved of no avail without an assured home market. That makes all the difference. The ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer is a theorist in business. I do not think he has ever been engaged in the direction of any big commercial enterprise. I have been very deeply interested in running commercial enterprises", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2359.0", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " trade of this country and you cannot attract capital into the big industries until in some of these hard-hit industries you give some guarantee for future markets. I would far sooner—I am speaking quite candidly—have had a really strong tariff on iron and steel imports than I would have these duties in regard to these small industries. A great deal can come from very small beginnings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2363.1", "colnum": "2363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. GUEST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is a minimum standard of life? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. GUEST", "preceding_text": "ployers of which receive such a very substantial advantage as would be given by a duty imposed under the safeguarding of industries, and if he is prepared to say that he will add to the Bill a provision to guarantee the workers a minimum standard of life, then I think a good many of us on this side would reconsider our attitude towards the matter, but there is no guarantee of that kind whatsoever,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2363.1", "colnum": "2363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. GUEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. GUEST", "preceding_text": "ustries at the present time. I do not believe at the present moment you are going to achieve anything more than the creation of a series of difficulties by these rather foolish little batches of plasters on our industrial system. You have got a lot of obsolete machinery both in management and actual machinery. You want new machinery, up-to-date machinery, in the organisation and in the management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2364.1", "colnum": "2364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. GUEST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The General Medical Council.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. GUEST", "preceding_text": "knowledge of the industries of this country, and it does seem to me rather ridiculous for any Member in this House to get up and suggest, as an hon. Member has suggested, that there are not industries in this country with obsolete machinery and that there are not industries whose management is completely out of date. That is a matter of common knowledge on these benches and in many other quarters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2364.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2380.0", "colnum": "2380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "At this point Mr. Churchill left the Chamber.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2380.2", "colnum": "2380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "I quite sympathise with the painful feelings which this discussion must arouse in the breast of the right hon. Gentleman, in view of his past utterances upon this topic. I was observing, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer left the Front Bench-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2380.2", "colnum": "2380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " Exchequer left the Front Bench-[ Interruption ]-I shall speak in my own time, and not in the time of hon. Members opposite. Interruptions from the other side will merely prolong my remarks. I am quite prepared to speak in the intervals of hon. Members' interruptions, until such time as the Government shall again move the Closure on the discussion, instead of making a reasoned reply. I was saying-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2384.2", "colnum": "2384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ion placed upon the pledge given by him in good faith at the last General Election, which implied an admission that there was a great difference between Safeguarding and Protection. This argument has no reference whatever to the Sheffield cutlery trade as distinct from other industries, but refers equally to the whole of the industries in the country. The last point I will submit to the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2386.1", "colnum": "2386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "preceding_text": "May I at once say that the Government cannot accept this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2394.0", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE BALF0UR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE BALF0UR", "preceding_text": "zen. Do they? They get a paltry few pence difference in price, and are deceived between the British and the German article. When the plea is made from the Radical Benches opposite that they wish to give the consumer a cheap article, let me ask these honourable enthusiasts where the people obtain the money which they pay across the counter? It comes from their wages. Where do their wages come from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2394.2", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Go on\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "e the Committee. The real business before the Committee is the Amendment to the Government Motion. The object of the Government Motion is to give support to British industry in order that workers may be kept in our workshops and have wages which will allow them to buy something, preferably British goods. There is one other thing, and it is the last word, for I have no intention of making a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2399.1", "colnum": "2399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "I will endeavour to keep within your ruling, but I am bound to say it seems to me to be rather a narrow one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2411.5", "colnum": "2411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "ee had to guide them to a conclusion. No doubt the Committee was a most excellent one, but surely this House will not abrogate its discretion and judgment to a Committee set up by the President of the Board of Trade for a particular purpose. The President of the Board of Trade is an avowed protectionist, and will see that the Committee is not weighted against his own avowed principles and beliefs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2411.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2414.2", "colnum": "2414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GILLETT", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member had better leave the duty of chairmanship to the occupant of the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2435.1", "colnum": "2435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was that so in the case of the McKenna Duties?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ustry. It may be said in the case of hand knives the burden would not be large. There is a reference to that point in the Report of the Committee and they say that the imposition of the proposed duty would only involve increased expenditure in the case of shoe knives by an additional charge of 1s. a year. But the cost would be very much higher. A Customs duty always raises the cost of the article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2440.0", "colnum": "2440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Knives!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) lashed himself into a fury and has treated us to a crescendo of vituperation, but the hon. Member who has just spoken has relieved the situation by a most interesting and affecting speech about the use of the farrier's knife. What is it all about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2441.0", "colnum": "2441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thirty-three and a third per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "e used for mincing up the meat. You will also find an away of band knives along the counter. The mincing knife is to escape the tax, but all the knives that the butcher uses by hand are to be taxed. Really for a Government, of all the intellects— Well, I see some of them look up sharply as though I were insulting them, so I at once withdraw the allegation. They are not of all the intellects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2441.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2451.1", "colnum": "2451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "As you know, Mr. Hope, we may have to revert to the practice of calling the House over. It may be necessary to ask the Chair to consent to a call of the House if the present procedure goes on. It is not only that hon. Members are absent through the call of duty. They are absent through an organised system of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2452.0", "colnum": "2452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "might be here to explain upon what principles they can justify the proposals now put forward. I entirely agree that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, above all other persons, should be present. Every part of this Debate has required his presence, and it is a perfectly scandalous thing that the institution of all sorts of taxes, which it will be extremely difficult to get rid of in the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2452.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-12-02", "file": "debates1925-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "668d3b15e5335232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2462.1", "colnum": "2462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "And the Press?", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "I call upon all strangers to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-02a.2462.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-12-03", "file": "debates1925-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f876e2e0660ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2486.4", "colnum": "2486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Now we know!\" and \"Political bias!\" [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I have no evidence up to the present of the political views of the elephant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-03", "file": "debates1925-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f876e2e0660ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2486.4", "colnum": "2486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "preceding_text": "\"Now we know!\" and \"Political bias!\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2486.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-03", "file": "debates1925-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f876e2e0660ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2591.1", "colnum": "2591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"GLOVES.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "n—when they do not know the condition of the outworkers, or how long they work. Despite that fact, and that the Committee have no knowledge as to how long the outworkers in other countries are working, we are asked to pass these proposals! And that is the kind of evidence that we are asked to support this Committee's findings on. It is not fair to the House. It is not fair to the workpeople.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-03", "file": "debates1925-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f876e2e0660ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2611.0", "colnum": "2611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"GLOVES.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "ssed by the right hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) in order to reply to the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Kelly). The hon. Member for Rochdale stated that he is one of the principal officers of the Glovers' Union, which has never been in favour of a tariff on gloves. The view I take of it is that the sooner the hon. Member's union get rid of him as one of its representatives, the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-03", "file": "debates1925-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f876e2e0660ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2613.2", "colnum": "2613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"GLOVES.\"", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ible for the entries into the ports of the country. We have appealed in vain. We cannot, with all our appeals to precedent, get what we want in that respect. We have utterly failed to get in Committee of Ways and Means a single representative of the Treasury. Of course, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury represents both the Customs and the Inland Revenue Department, and if he were here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2613.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-03", "file": "debates1925-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f876e2e0660ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2617.3", "colnum": "2617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"GLOVES.\"", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " War. That is no doubt an explanation and extenuation. It does not alter the fact that the committee found that there was disparity in conditions. The most they say is that they are satisfied that British manufacturers have considerably improved their products. That is the best this Committee, which is recommending a duty, can do in reply to the question: Is the industry conducted with efficiency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-03", "file": "debates1925-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f876e2e0660ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2629.6", "colnum": "2629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"GLOVES.\"", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are academic economics?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": " the Committee, then the constitution of the Committee, and then the impartiality of the Committee, but he did not once address himself to the question whether or not more persons will be employed by the imposition of this duly, whether the cost of gloves will go up, or whether the increased trade will bring revenue to the Exchequer. Every single argument he produced was one of academic economics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2629.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-03", "file": "debates1925-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f876e2e0660ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2631.1", "colnum": "2631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"GLOVES.\"", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who pays it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "hese duties? I submit that we shall obtain that increased revenue on three grounds, the first by whatever imports may be levied on the goods which still come to this country. Further, we shall obtain it by the increased Income Tax and Super-tax levied upon the shareholders and the manufacturers, and we shall obtain it by the increased Income Tax which is paid by the extra workmen who are employed,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-03", "file": "debates1925-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f876e2e0660ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2657.2", "colnum": "2657", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" \"Runciman!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member must allow me to put the Motion. Is it the pleasure of the House that the Motion be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-03", "file": "debates1925-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f876e2e0660ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2666.2", "colnum": "2666", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was not able to!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "But does the hon. Gentleman say that this tariff device did protect this market, or does he say the foreign share of the trade increased in that period?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-03", "file": "debates1925-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb8f876e2e0660ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2666.2", "colnum": "2666", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not against such a depreciation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "But does the hon. Gentleman say that this tariff device did protect this market, or does he say the foreign share of the trade increased in that period? [An HON. MEMBER: \"It was not able to!\"] That the duty was not able to achieve its end?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-03a.2666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-04", "file": "debates1925-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80b249877118aa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2719.2", "colnum": "2719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Neville Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would have differed from Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Neville Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "tween one district and another. That this arrangement will benefit trade was admitted in the debate on the Motion for the rejection of the Second Reading of this Bill. Of the two alternatives—the one in the Bill and the one in the Amendment for the rejection of the Bill—the one which would have made the larger change and the greatest disturbance would not have been the one in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-04", "file": "debates1925-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80b249877118aa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2719.2", "colnum": "2719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Neville Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Neville Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "ther place, the basis of my Amendment will be that where those circumstances exist and where a municipal authority being the owner of houses of a certain class, the whole or part of the abatement which it gives to itself—which may be 10 per cent.—where it does that, it should also be obliged to give a similar percentage of 10 per cent. to the owner-occupier of houses of the same class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-04", "file": "debates1925-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80b249877118aa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2752.1", "colnum": "2752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Liberal party are concerned they have not contributed in any great measure. So far as the Opposition are concerned, we have listened to a large number of speeches, including those from the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the one idea seems in this matter of social reform to tax the raw material of industry on every occasion you possibly can. That is the contribution of hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-04", "file": "debates1925-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80b249877118aa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2772.0", "colnum": "2772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S0MERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S0MERVILLE", "preceding_text": "cted and chosen by the parish council, and they have the right to speak and to vote on the assessment committee. The party opposite opposed the appointment of these two representatives. It is rather a remarkable thing that the Socialist party which is trying to capture the vote of the agricultural labourer should oppose the agricultural labourer having a voice in the management of his own affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-04", "file": "debates1925-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80b249877118aa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2785.0", "colnum": "2785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " the great mass of the people will neither be better nor worse for the Bill. I think the saving, if any, will be infinitesimal, and that the benefit that it is going to confer upon the people that most of us on this side represent, will be nothing at all. One of my hon. colleagues who represents a South Wales constituency would have liked to have said something, but he has been obliged to go away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-04", "file": "debates1925-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80b249877118aa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2785.0", "colnum": "2785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "wer that will be given by some of the newspapers, and, perhaps, by hon. Gentlemen opposite to people like myself, that if we would not oppose these kind of Bills we should have more time here to hammer out other proposals. I for one would just make this observation to whomever it may concern—that I know at least a dozen of us here, and probably very many more, who would sit quite dumb—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-04", "file": "debates1925-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b80b249877118aa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2785.0", "colnum": "2785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "would sit quite dumb—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"]—if the Government or anybody else in the House would bring forward some Measure for the relief of the people that I mentioned a moment ago. It is all very well for us to come here day after day and week after week, and knowing the conditions that are prevailing, do nothing but legislate in the manner we have been trying to do of late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-04a.2785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "estion of wages.\" Those are the lines on which he should proceed in the future. He does not do that. He takes out one or two industries, picks them out on no principle, no rule, he gives no guidance as to the way in which the trades are to be selected. It seems to me that if you can bring the necessary amount of political pressure to bear the President of the Board of Trade will grant a Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "The argument which the hon. Gentleman is raising might be extended by some medical gentlemen in the House, and might be made to apply to all surgical instruments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "preceding_text": "arrier will become known as \"Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister's Blisters.\" They may not be fatal, but they are certainly irritating. Here you have a Government which is always saying that it wants to assist the worker. I argue that the Government has no right to impose even a small hardship of thin kind upon the poorly paid worker who earns his living by the sweat of his brow and the skill of his hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir ALAN BURGOYNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir ALAN BURGOYNE", "preceding_text": "try? Surely it is not enough merely to say that Protection is wrong. Let ns assume that in five years' time it is shown that all the industries which are now protected under the Safeguarding of Industries Act are advancing by leaps and bounds and are employing more men, will hon. Members then come forward, if either the Liberals opposite or the Labour party are in power, and sweep away Protection?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "preceding_text": "That is not going to help you. What will you say to the questions which will be put to you when these industries are going ahead, when there are more people employed in them as a result of the duties, and when you are asked: \"Are you still going to follow the ex-Chancellor who has pledged himself twice in this House that if ever his party comes into office again, off will come these taxes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ge thing that the countries which have had higher standards of living for their workers have very often succeeded in the export market against countries which have had a lower standard, because in the main we know that sweated conditions do not produce good work or work that can command good prices. The standing example of that, of course, is America, where wages and conditions of living are high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.172.2", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How about America!''", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ould bring this into effect. As to all that is being said about this being a general tariff by back-door methods, no one even in the hon. Gentleman's own party believes it. These duties are only to meet an exceptional and abnormal time. If we came to a time when wage conditions and conditions of hours were equal the whole world over, I would join with him in saying that safeguarding is not needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.172.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.183.0", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": " not keep out Italian gloves you will be depriving British workmen of employment. Has he never thought of this? Exactly the same applied in the case of cheap cutlery. You have cheap gloves coming in which a certain class of people can afford to buy. It is quite possible that they cannot afford to buy the more expensive British gloves. You put a duty on the cheap gloves, making them more expensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "any time during the last two years. I have a report, dated 3rd December, 1925, in which it is stated that there has been only such a state of affairs as would result from post-War conditions, that they have not been placed on short time, that they have been working full time and overtime, and that having had a good year in 1925 they are looking forward to 1926 with a great measure of satisfaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"A threat!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member did not allow me to finish. I was going to prove the prosperity of the industry and show the wonderful developments that are taking place at this time without a 33⅓ per cent. tariff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.190.6", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\" and \" No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "Sufficient for mo to say that he is a representative of the trade -—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.190.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.190.8", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A packer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "A representative of the unions in the gloving industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.190.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "ar there is a claim that we should know all the facts that led to the Committee's arriving at the present proposal I noticed, during the discussions on this matter recently, that the President of the Board of Trade attached considerable importance to industries that were dependent upon the manufacture of gas mantles, particularly the industries concerned with the manufacture of cerium and thorium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "sal I noticed, during the discussions on this matter recently, that the President of the Board of Trade attached considerable importance to industries that were dependent upon the manufacture of gas mantles, particularly the industries concerned with the manufacture of cerium and thorium. [ Interruption. ] I observe that these industries are treated with general derision on all sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Monopoly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "British hands. They are at present owned by two companies. One is the Travancore Mineral Company, Limited. I am not sure of the name of the other company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-07", "file": "debates1925-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b261ba540d8d5f0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "dsworth, for whom on occasions the hon. Member for Wandsworth speaks up, are not getting anything approaching their share out of this particular industry. This is the third or fourth day we have been fooling around on these duties. Not one of them will do the least bit of good to the workpeople of this country. Every hon. and right hon. Member within sound of my voice knows that is perfectly true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-07a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-08", "file": "debates1925-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "dd567fd1087206ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-08a.225.7", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "Y: May we have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-08a.225.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-12-08", "file": "debates1925-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "dd567fd1087206ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-08a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman personally been able to understand Income Tax returns without assistance?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the variety of bases to which my hon. and gallant Friend refer? although I do not follow his calculation of their number. A remedy for the inherent difficulties of the subject is not easily found but the matter is one which has my constant study.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-08a.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-08", "file": "debates1925-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "dd567fd1087206ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-08a.354.3", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which paper!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "e in respect of Income Tax next year. When the taxpayers of this country are bearing this terrible burden and are threatened with even greater burdens. I say that the Government ought not to have waived this payment which the British taxpayer, according to arrangements which they made in the original Treaty, was entitled to have. In a New York paper I read yesterday a rather illuminating sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-08a.354.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.424.11", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM LANE-MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that; the Foreign Office took the film themselves, and not any company at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.424.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.460.6", "colnum": "460", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "If it be all there is, the House can sit longer. We wasted three months in holidays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.460.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Owing to dumped goods!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "d unemployment in Coventry, Wolver-hampton and Birmingham at different periods. Let me give the House some of these figures. In July, 1924. the duties upon imported motor cars were taken off. On 1st July there were 23,860 persons in Coventry employed in the manufacture and repair of motor vehicles. After 12 months, during which there had been no duties in operation, the number had risen to 28,300.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "Trader, but hard and incontrovertible facts supplied by the Protectionist Minister of Labour. It is quite clear that you have no guarantee that the imposition of these duties will increase employment. No one knows better than the Chancellor of the Exchequer, no one has exposed more effectively and more eloquently (he fallacy of the argument that you can increase employment by making things dearer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.524.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " of these duties will increase employment. No one knows better than the Chancellor of the Exchequer, no one has exposed more effectively and more eloquently (he fallacy of the argument that you can increase employment by making things dearer. [ Interruption .] Does the right hon. Gentleman say that the re-imposition of these duties three or four months ago is the reason why motor cars are cheaper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.529.3", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "g unemployment is to put a duty on gas mantles, on cheap German cutlery and on gloves. What has become of the other proposals which from time to time the Government have mentioned in debates upon unemployment? The Prime Minister has not honoured the House by his presence this afternoon. I wonder whether we should be justified in thinking that his interest in the unemployment question has weakened?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.529.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "d prevent anyone else from having it, ho would become a rich man with the greatest possible ease. It is as true to-day as it was then. An import duty put on for the benefit of one trade can easily give that advantage to any one individual trade, but that is qualified by the fact that if the import duty leads to a rise in price—and we know from experience it does, and is meant to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ified by the fact that if the import duty leads to a rise in price—and we know from experience it does, and is meant to do so— [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If it is not meant to do so, thon these are going to be perfectly futile from the very first. The Report suggested it would do so. No one will admit more readily than the Chancellor of the Exchequer that import duties always add to prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Prove that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "erfectly futile from the very first. The Report suggested it would do so. No one will admit more readily than the Chancellor of the Exchequer that import duties always add to prices. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] If he does not do so, he will be going back on everything he has said before. Anyone who knows anything about political economy knows perfectly well you do not cheapen things by putting on taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "Practically every speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "d under a lower wage level or lower social conditions than prevail here. On the other hand, the Liberal party see the vast increase of imported manufactures— so that while we have 1,100,000 men unemployed we are importing manufactured goods which have given employment to 1,300,000 foreigners—with the greatest satisfaction. The Government are somewhat between the Devil and the deep sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "ed conditions even after this Bill and other Bills of a similar nature have been passed into law. I am tired of what seems to me—and I say so with all deference to the House— the utter waste of time that has been in evidence during the discussion of these proposals. The people whom I represent and stand for are poor. They were poor when there was a Protectionist policy in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "vate monopoly. What I wanted to ask those Members of the Tory party who have been telling us that we have to protect ourselves— and they are very much concerned about the interests of the workers—against low paid labour and sweated conditions in foreign countries, is why they do not explain that those low paid conditions and that sweating exist, not only in Protectionist America—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.584.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On hops and barley!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "hequer made his speech on the Budget in May; but does he know that the President of the Board of Trade has been telling the brush people and others to \"hurry up\"? Should not the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is in control of the cash box, be really brought into it? Why should not the Office of Works introduce a Taxation Bill? Why should not the Minister of Agriculture introduce a Taxation Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.599.5", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "preceding_text": "Do not deal with one article only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.599.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.602.3", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "I judge from that answer that the right hon. Gentleman has fairly strong opinions about this matter which has been referred to a packed Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.602.3", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "ons about this matter which has been referred to a packed Committee—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] —to prevent the case of a great industry like the iron and steel trade being heard. I wonder whether the Chancellor has seen the case issued on behalf of the light steel industry in regard to that application. I have here a case submitted to us signed by 23 firms in the light steel industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "put it to the Government to-night that it would have been far better, having regard to what took place at Geneva this year, that they should have waited until at least the preparatory committee which is proposed as a result of this year's Geneva Conference had been set up, and that they might have been assisted towards laying a foundation of permanent peace. I am anxious not to take too much time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "That, or something like it, is what we have been urged to do quite recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, Oh!\" and Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "nt Friend contributes so much to our entertainment, and enlightens our Debates so often and so long, that there is not one of us who would not sympathise with him sincerely if he found himself in the terrible position of being confronted with a genuine fiscal outrage, and having nothing at his disposal but a bankrupt vocabulary! It is suggested that my speeches in 1923 convict me of inconsistency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-09", "file": "debates1925-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "40d114f6b03e1c2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Red Letter!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": ". [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, Oh!\" and Interruption. ] But who has not changed since 1923? Who fought the Election of 1923 on the capital levy? Who fought the Election of 1923 against Socialism, and put the Socialist Government into power? After all, I may be, pardoned for defending myself. The Conservative party fought the Election of 1923 on a general tariff. We fought the Election of 1924 on the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-09a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-10", "file": "debates1925-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "63e902334ca23cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.659.0", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "With the permission of the hon. Members, I will answer these questions together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-10", "file": "debates1925-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "63e902334ca23cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "WITHDRAWAL OF STRANGERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": ", Sir, that this shows that these and the staff are recognised as officers of the House. They are paid by a Vote which is passed by this House, and they appear in a list of officers of the House; consequently they cannot be considered strangers. The last point I want to make is this: When the Press had all withdrawn, efforts were made to get the reporters back—that is the Official Reporters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-10", "file": "debates1925-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "63e902334ca23cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.731.6", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "nce, up to the end of October over 90 per cent. of the subvention had gone as a direct subvention to wages. Over the whole mass of the coalfields dealing with them as a whole—I cannot trace an individual mine or even an individual district— over the whole area of the coalfields scarcely any profits have yet been made by the owners, and they have just been able to keep themselves going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.731.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-10", "file": "debates1925-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "63e902334ca23cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "y be that, if things go well, and the improvement continues, the gap will be narrowed, that it will become more manageable; indeed, it is probable that it will be more manageable, more nearly bridgable, in April than it was in July; but it will still be there. In the meantime, we expect the Report of the Royal Commission. The Commission is not composed, as the Saw-key Commission was, of partisans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-10", "file": "debates1925-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "63e902334ca23cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "s a given policy he is quite sure the Government will give it legislative effect. Then he linked up that idea with the other plea. There has been far too much of this. He says \" Let us unite to solve the problem,\" as if there were no vested interests to challenge. I have heard it said to-day on this side, \"Let us have peace and good will upon earth.\" You cannot, as long as the land monopoly holds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-10", "file": "debates1925-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "63e902334ca23cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "about. They do not require to sponge or to go before the unemployment committee. They can got to their hunt, they can go to Monte Carlo, they can go to Heaven or the other place. Their royalties are secured, even by a subsidy, in their absence. I know that hon. Members opposite are here to secure landlordism, to protect it, to give it, as they did last year, a subsidy of 75 per cent. on the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-10", "file": "debates1925-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "63e902334ca23cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "CLASS 6.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Gretna!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "mailer which I would like to ask the hon. Gentleman, and that is whether or not the authorities have arrived at a reserve price for the land and buildings at Wembley, what is the reserve price, if they have, and, if not, have the Government or the authorities at Wembley any intentions with regard to the future of these magnificent, buildings and this wonderful site so near to the great Metropolis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-10", "file": "debates1925-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "63e902334ca23cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "CLASS 6.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "tish Empire, and their knowledge, geographical and otherwise, might have been increased. I do not know who was responsible for the Sunday closing, and I hope an inquiry will be held to find out. Who were the people who decided that this great panorama of the British Empire could not be seen on Sundays? I do not know anything about it because, naturally, I only saw it twice—at my own expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-10", "file": "debates1925-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "63e902334ca23cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "CLASS 6.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ition authorities, at war with everybody, and to try and persuade them to go back to work. 10.0 P.M. That was the first connection of the Labour Government with the British Empire Exhibition. We took on the job, and went down and faced them, and we persuaded them to go to work. They went to work, and the exhibition was opened. Is anyone going to blame either this side or that side for the weather?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-10a.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-11", "file": "debates1925-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "dc6e4c7532055ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "ROSYTH AND PEMBROKE DOCKYARDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM ADAMS0N", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM ADAMS0N", "preceding_text": "ll more readily agree than Scotland. We will welcome the time when we can afford to do without navies and without Royal dockyards, but so long as these are essential to the well being of the United Kingdom then, as we pay our share of the money required for running them, we insist and are entitled to insist on getting our fair share of the money that is spent in running these national departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-11", "file": "debates1925-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "dc6e4c7532055ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "ROSYTH AND PEMBROKE DOCKYARDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Votes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " the link between the little principality and the Navy in which it feels so much pride. I remember that when the Irish Members were here Haulbowline was kept alive not so much because it was needed —it was not a very convenient place to have; from the point of view of economy nobody could have defended it—but from the sentimental point of view that it would have been folly to close it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-11", "file": "debates1925-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "dc6e4c7532055ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "ROSYTH AND PEMBROKE DOCKYARDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I said that I had not read any such speeches by Welsh Members, but I have read speeches made in Scotland, and one at any rate was made in this House on 29th July to that effect. I can assure the House that neither the Admiralty nor I have been moved by any antipathy either to Scotland or to Wales. I have both Scottish and Welsh blood in my veins, and I have no animosity against either nationality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-11", "file": "debates1925-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "dc6e4c7532055ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "ROSYTH AND PEMBROKE DOCKYARDS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " are bound to cause unemployment. To-day it is Rosyth and Pembroke, to-morrow it may be Woolwich or Chatham or some great arsenal or works in Sheffield or elsewhere. Although Pembroke and Rosyth have been able to organise this agitation down here, what about the 68,000 shareholders in Vickers' and Maxims' who are going to lose two-thirds of their capital by the re-organisation announced yesterday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-11", "file": "debates1925-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "dc6e4c7532055ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.908.5", "colnum": "908", "heading": "ROSYTH AND PEMBROKE DOCKYARDS.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "I thoroughly agree and I withdraw. But I say it is very unfor- tunate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.908.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-11", "file": "debates1925-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "dc6e4c7532055ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "ROSYTH AND PEMBROKE DOCKYARDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY", "preceding_text": "se national sentiment should be depreciated, as certain speakers have tried to depreciate it. After all, national sentiment is a factor in international life and I am certain the First Lord understand that, so far as this matter of the reduction of Rosyth Dockyard to a, care and maintenance basis is concerned, he has against him the united sentiment and feeling of the whole of the Scottish people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-11", "file": "debates1925-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "dc6e4c7532055ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "ROSYTH AND PEMBROKE DOCKYARDS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY", "preceding_text": "olicy of the Admiralty will work out either in the direction of efficiency or economy. References have been made to political log-rolling. I am not quite sure, if this aspect of the matter is pursued far enough, that we shall not discover that the reductions in these two dockyards will not be found to be more due to political log-rolling than to any practical naval purpose. I will not pursue that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-11", "file": "debates1925-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "dc6e4c7532055ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "ROSYTH AND PEMBROKE DOCKYARDS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no change!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HALL", "preceding_text": "I note with some interest the change of attitude of Members on the opposite side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-11", "file": "debates1925-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "dc6e4c7532055ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "ROSYTH AND PEMBROKE DOCKYARDS.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "And compensated!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-11", "file": "debates1925-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "dc6e4c7532055ca5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "ROSYTH AND PEMBROKE DOCKYARDS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "nt, in the localities where these men are going to be transferred, to get in touch with the local authorities, particularly in places where the housing shortage is as great as it is in Plymouth and Devonport, and, instead of giving the separation allowance to the men, to give the money that is going to be spent to the local authorities in order that they may provide houses and homes for these men?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-11a.932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not a. Finance Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister)", "preceding_text": " said that before five years are over this Government may be out of office. Well, we will wait and see, but, if we are, then it will be quite open to him, or to other hon. and right hon. Gentlemen, or to a combination or coalition of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen, if they take our place, to repeal these duties in the ordinary way and by the proper method of a new Finance Bill when that time comes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "gan (Mr. Morris) has just instanced the interest of the consumer. Supposing it turns out, as we fear, that these duties will bring hardship to consumers all over the country. Is it not right that that hardship should be reviewed at the end of 12 months, and that the House shall have the opportunity of revoking its decision? Take one example. We have argued again and again, perhaps too often—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will not believe you! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ves. I suggest that gloves ought to be taxed in the warm weather, if they are to be taxed at all, and that they ought to be tax free in cold weather. This is the worst possible period to tax gloves. We shall go into the country. I shall certainly go, and say that this Government has put a tax on gloves in the hard winter, and that that is a great injustice to poor people. That is what I shall say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is under Capitalism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "l find that they not only make matches, but that they have taken out of the slums of Bow and Bromley the manufacture of the boxes, and the boxes are now produced under fairly decent. reasonable conditions—the people are paid proper wages, work proper hours, get holidays, and are dealt with infinitely better. There is no comparison with the conditions that prevailed five-and-twenty years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "m to have the same concern for the well-being of the people of this country, who, we think, will be beneficially affected by these duties. Imperial Preference has been an integral part of our fiscal policy for years, incorporated year after year in our financial legislation and accepted by most Members of this House and, as far as I know, by all the Leaders of the party below the Gangway opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1083.3", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "preceding_text": "tary Secretary upon his smile, but not upon any information which he has been able to give me in answer to the specific inquiries I have made to him in this House. It has been said to-night that, in dealing with this particular question, the party to which I have the honour to belong is always pleading in the interests of the people outside our own country and ignoring the workers in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1083.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again.\" I make this Motion in view of the fact that, after having listened to the debate on the Motion \"That Clause I stand part of the Bill,\" the Minister representing the Government did not even condescend to reply to the various arguments advanced against the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1111.7", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "With regard to the Title of the Bill touched upon by my right hon. Friend the Member for West Swansea (Mr. Runciman), on 4th December I happened to be in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1111.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1111.7", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "tell us why the Title was altered. With regard to the Amendment, I must say that it should appeal to all hon. and right hon. Members of the House who like square, honest dealing. This policy is the same old policy dressed up, repainted, refurbished and brought in under a third name. Even in my short political life—by that I mean my short life during which I have followed these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1111.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1122.2", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did not you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": " duties, because they believed and knew they were Protective duties, and the hon. and gallant Member for Torquay (Commander Williams) said the same thing this afternoon when he declared quite openly that these were Protective taxes. Nothing would give us more pain than that hon. Members opposite, who use the Union Jack at election times and other patriotic devices, should sail under false colours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1126.2", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER\": \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "sophistry is behind this? You go out into the country and say you have been consistent with the Prime Minister's pledge and you have not brought in Protection; it was merely a Safeguarding of Industries Bill. That is when you find that the wave of popular opinion is going against the reactionary proposals of Protection, but supposing it should go the other way, you can equally play the other card.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1131.0", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU do not know anything about it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "tising stunt. We know that there are very many flourishing advertisement firms who charge very large fees, not to improve an article, but that they may find just the title to sell that article. In the modern commercial world, I understand, it is a more important thing that you should get a suitable title for an article to be sold than that you should be particular as to the quality of the article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1137.5", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is always very lucid. As I understand it, if the handle or the blade is made of either iron or steel the knife is dutiable, so that if the blade be made of iron and the handle is made of tortoiseshell, it is dutiable. Am I correct?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1137.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " be found—when the President of the Board of Trade can produce him. Meanwhile we will continue and hope that when he comes later on a little light may be thrown on the matter. I am glad to see the Parliamentary Secretary is also going to join in the hunt. The articles proposed to have a duty placed upon them under the Schedule are very cheap and nasty imports for the most part, from Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1138.6", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "icle from that which we consider to be the Sheffield article, and any real competition does not exist. I have further samples of cheap German products here, which I can show to hon. Members opposite. Here is what is called a putty knife. I am sure that no British operative would think of using a shoddy article of this kind in order to fix putty against panes of glass in any window in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1138.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1138.6", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Gross profits", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " for the British article. One could quote a number of other cases from their own evidence which all point in the same direction. There is another example, that of German knives with two blades described as bolster knives, which probably means that they would just cut through a bolster. We find that the wholesale selling price of the Sheffield product, including again the 1s per cent. profit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1138.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "The Schedule says, \"A knife made partly or wholly of steel.\" It has steel rivets. Will it then be dutiable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-14", "file": "debates1925-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd28e2ba308cb754", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1149.2", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "hy should that not be excluded from the duty? Then there is the knife used by sailors, and why should that be taxed? All you are doing by this duty is simply telling the sailor not to buy his knife in this country, but purchase it in a foreign port, and thus you are driving our trade to other countries because you can buy these articles in a German port, for example, where they would not be taxed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-14a.1149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1241.2", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "preceding_text": "st Swansea (Mr. Runciman) has said there is no distinction between a man using a knife in a machine and a man using a knife individually for trade purposes. In the first place—possibly he has heard this said before—the applicants for this duty specifically excluded the machine knife from their application, and during the hearing they explained that they did not include surgical knives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1241.2", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "preceding_text": "man spoke about the hardships inflicted on the poor workman by having possibly to pay a higher price for the knife he uses in his work, and he used as, an instance the putty knife. I would refer him to Clause 41 of the Committee's Report where they explain that very considerable examination has been given to the subject of the shoemaker's knife, which I imagine may be classed with the putty knife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1241.2", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One cuts and the other does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "preceding_text": " the knife he uses in his work, and he used as, an instance the putty knife. I would refer him to Clause 41 of the Committee's Report where they explain that very considerable examination has been given to the subject of the shoemaker's knife, which I imagine may be classed with the putty knife. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I am neither a shoemaker nor a glazier, and I cannot distinguish between the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " the arguments of hon. Members opposite, must realise that hon. Members opposite are taking up a very curious position. Their complaint against the Government now is that they have not taxed enough things. We are told that they have omitted to tax machine knives. Surely, the only remedy for that would be to place a duty on those, knives also, but I do not want to see that done at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" He said be was not a Protectionist! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman does his party and the Liberal party less than justice. Both, candidates were at every single meeting subjected to the closest cross-examination on the subject of Safeguarding, and emerged from it unscathed. I remember reading more than one speech and many answers given by the hon. and gallant Member for Ripon (Major Hills) in the contest in which he was the candidate..", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL CAINE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL CAINE", "preceding_text": "urers and Protectionists, are trying to get tariffs put on and kept on as long as possible. I am delighted to hear that he has found two men in. America who wish to see their tariffs reduced. That is exactly my position in the matter. If you give us manufacturers a fair show and a fair chance by putting on a duty we shall be the first to ask that competition shall again be started in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1277.2", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"If they benefit?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": " find it impossible to live on their low wages when the price of everything has been raised by high import duties, and they will come forward and say, \"We must have more wages in order to meet the higher charges which your protective duties are imposing.\" In paying those higher wages, manufacturers will be throwing away any so-called advantage they may gain from this tariff. If they benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "extreme poverty and the ability to exist fairly comfortably will be overcome if we agree to this 33⅓ per cent. increase in taxation. I hope before the Committee says quite definitely that it does not care a hang about the consumer, and does not care a hang about stimulating industry, as long as it can guarantee 33⅓ per cent. increased profit to its friends in the steel industry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "States. That is the view of the firms whose fortunes are at stake. I think I can prophesy the reply which the President of the Board of Trade is going to make. It was suggested in a short speech made yesterday. It is that, if the Gillette Company can save 10 per cent. on the cost of their raw material by buying their steel from Sweden, they will do so anyhow, whether this tariff is imposed or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1289.7", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": " is some risk, and the point the Committee have to consider is that we are taking this risk of imposing a tariff on an industry in which there is not a man unemployed in the land. That is why we say this particular article stands in a category quite different from those which have been included. What the Government are doing is to impose a duty which will not give extra employment to a single man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1289.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1298.4", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not over you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I want to reply to the argument made by the hon. and gallant Member for Leith (Captain Benn) who, I am sorry to say, has left the House. I always admire the moral and intellectual superiority which he presumes to have over the rest of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1298.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "on, in 12 months we shall be told that the success of that firm is a result of it. That development has been going on for a long period, and they have had to square themselves up, due to the superior organisation and methods of the Gillette Razor Blade Company. A short time ago, how much the condition of the motor trade was increased by letting a little daylight in, in removing the McKenna Duties!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1327.0", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "The blank about which the hon. Member seems to be so obscure is the article which is the raw material—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1327.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1328.2", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tang!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "tary to the Treasury. I do not know any House of Commons that would tolerate a Debate on Customs duties without the presence of a Treasury official. I should like to put to the hon. Gentleman, on this Motion, one or two points. He is proposing to tax blanks: is he also going to tax tengs? I am informed, on the highest technical authority, that, in addition to the blank, the knife-blade has a teng.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1333.3", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Or bone! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "When you read down this part of the Schedule, we are dealing with steel and iron until we come to line 18, and then you begin with handles, and the handle may be made of various materials. Here is a knife that has a brass wall casing that holds the blades. It is ivory or some other composition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1333.3", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": " Schedule, we are dealing with steel and iron until we come to line 18, and then you begin with handles, and the handle may be made of various materials. Here is a knife that has a brass wall casing that holds the blades. It is ivory or some other composition. [An HON. MEMBER: \" Or bone! \"] If it is bone we get it from the heads opposite. This handle of a German knife that I hold in my hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "We cannot have two Debates on the same matter. If it is agreed by the Committee that we might have a Debate on all forms of gloves on this Amendment, and a Division on this and subsequent Amendments, it could be done, if that be the general sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENE", "preceding_text": "together, that is the export trade and the home trade, the hon. and gallant Gentleman will find that the trade, as a whole, has suffered considerably since 1913 and fallen from nearly three-quarters of a million dozen pairs to less than half a million dozen pairs. Let me reply to the charge of inefficiency. That charge was made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENE", "preceding_text": "or Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden). [ Interruption .] He made it in a speech in which he quoted myself as having said that I had been in the homes of the workers and had seen the uncomfortable conditions under which they worked. But those conditions are not caused by inefficiency of management, or inefficiency of machinery supplied in the works. Those conditions are caused by the poverty of the worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1352.2", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" He did read that! \"and \"He read every word of it! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "I gave the hoc Member the opportunity to read that passage and he did not read the part in which the speaker reminded hem that they must not expect too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1352.2", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "I gave the hoc Member the opportunity to read that passage and he did not read the part in which the speaker reminded hem that they must not expect too much. [HON. MEMBERS: \" He did read that! \"and \"He read every word of it! \"] He did not read that part, and I will road it to the Committee. Probably an earlier hour of the evening might suit some people to understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1352.2", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": " but if the thoughts of hon. Members run in other directions, then they must wear the cap. I suggest that some hon. Members are too tired to understand what has happened. The statement made was by a Tariff Reformer, and he said that they must not expect too much from the safeguarding of industries, and I suggest that that part, which was the opening of the statement, was not read to the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1352.2", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it!\" and \"Read the passage!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "rections, then they must wear the cap. I suggest that some hon. Members are too tired to understand what has happened. The statement made was by a Tariff Reformer, and he said that they must not expect too much from the safeguarding of industries, and I suggest that that part, which was the opening of the statement, was not read to the Committee. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it!\"] We were reminded-—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \" Divide \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. PETO", "preceding_text": " are not proposed or designed to increase employment in this country, and have asked whether there is any agreement between employers and workpeople for an increase of wages. The best increase of wages that any workman can have is the increase from zero point when he is unemployed. There are 9,000 people now earning nothing, and 1,800 people on half-time. At the time when employment is bad —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-15", "file": "debates1925-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b5f7b086bdd93e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. PETO", "preceding_text": "n employment is bad —[HON. MEMBEBS: \" Divide \"]—and industries are closing down is not precisely a favourable time to try to negotiate by strike or other methods an increase of wages. The first thing you have to do is to put the industry on its feet, which these proposals will do. Then we shall get, not only increased employment, but the increased wages hon. Gentlemen opposite desires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-15a.1365.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1400.4", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "You never see them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1400.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1422.2", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIR SERVICE, EGYPT AND INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "What parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1422.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1471.0", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Lloyd George!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "city, you can increase the volume of commerce and employment. It is not for the purpose of dealing with those subjects that I rise this afternoon. If he complains that some of us have not been taking part in these Debates, I might say that the right hon. Member for West Swansea (Mr. Runciman), and those associated with him, have been sufficiently capable of destroying the arguments he has adduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"High tariffs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "ompetition? It is assumed apparently that if any country has its working population working longer hours and at lower wages, then that is unfair-competition. That overlooks the fact that on the whole low wages and long hours means higher cost of production. The country which now threatens the industrial supremacy of the world is the United States, with high wages, short hours and great efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": " industrial supremacy of the world is the United States, with high wages, short hours and great efficiency. [HON. MEMBERS: \"High tariffs!\"] High tariffs merely hamper their export trade. The leading manufacturers in America to whom I have spoken, like the heads of the big steel trusts, are themselves realising that if ever they wish to increase their export trades they must decrease their tariffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1475.1", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "t?\" What I want to ask the Government is this: Are these duties meant to be taxes in a revenue sense at all? If they are not, what is the point of the argument he is trying to enforce? What revenue is expected through these duties? Obviously, if they produce a revenue, they do not safeguard; and if they safeguard, they do not produce a revenue. We should like to know which they are intended to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1475.1", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about hops\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "ckings, their gloves, And their lace, and all their duties are designed to make their raiment more costly. [An HON. MEMRER: \"In order to give work to their young men\"!] The young men will have to pay for these articles. As a matter of fact, the whole tendency of these duties is to lay a greater burden on those things, and especially on agriculture, which receives no kind of compensating advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1483.5", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. FOSTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£1,000,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. FOSTER", "preceding_text": "ecome that the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself, when questioned, said he was watching, and he was going to consider what could be done and what action could be taken. He was taking note of these things with a view to seeing whether they could not be covered by the duty. He, of course, found it was not within his power to do so. The effect was that our revenue was deprived of a substantial sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1483.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1494.2", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL CAINE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL CAINE", "preceding_text": "nd of course I cannot imagine that these two small duties which are now suggested would have any considerable effect upon shipping. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Swansea is also a banker, and the one Amendment which came from the Opposition which gave me any moment for pause, because I think it must be admitted that many of the Amendments were purely obstructionist Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1494.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1501.1", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ches spoke about international co-operation between trade unions, and everything of that kind is to the good of our workers. Furthermore, the Government themselves have it in their hands by a more active prosecution of the recommendations of the Geneva Conventions, to do something to this end. The Bill is now going through, and I dare say it will secure a considerable majority in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1504.0", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES (CUSTOMS DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: ''That is why they are so rich!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "send it back to the United States to be sold at lower rates than they can manufacture it themselves. They are dying to get our markets and would like our foreign customers to buy their cloth. But they cannot manufacture it as cheaply, because under a protective system they have raised prices all round, and we can beat them hollow in the export trade of the world because of their protective system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NECESSITOUS AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "the Ministry of Health, asks from that Box if the Labour Opposition can give any suggestion as to schemes of employment. Is the Tory Government so bankrupt after its 12 months of office? Did it not go through a campaign during the election, telling the people what was going to be done for them if they would have the courage to elect a Tory Government? Unemployment was to be wiped out of existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NECESSITOUS AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Who said it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "an give any suggestion as to schemes of employment. Is the Tory Government so bankrupt after its 12 months of office? Did it not go through a campaign during the election, telling the people what was going to be done for them if they would have the courage to elect a Tory Government? Unemployment was to be wiped out of existence. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Unemployment was to be wiped out of existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NECESSITOUS AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "upt after its 12 months of office? Did it not go through a campaign during the election, telling the people what was going to be done for them if they would have the courage to elect a Tory Government? Unemployment was to be wiped out of existence. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Unemployment was to be wiped out of existence. [HON. MEMBERS: \" Who said it? \"] The Prime Minister in his address to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1560.1", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NECESSITOUS AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " will probably go to your constituencies and tell of the glorious and brilliant work accomplished by the great Government we have in office. Brilliant! They want gas mantles to show the brilliance, and very poor light at that! I want to ask the Secretary for Scotland and the Undersecretary for Health exactly what the Government mean to do. We have had this year three months' holidays at a stretch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-16", "file": "debates1925-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "672ce6676dc6558f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1567.0", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NECESSITOUS AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "date the matter a little further, and go into details as to what it was he desired the Government to do, because that is the real basis of the problem which we have to face. As hon. Members will realise, it means no; only special assistance by the Government, but special assistance to a particular locality meaning better financial aid to that particular locality than to other parts of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-16a.1567.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1615.6", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health, whether it is not a fact that in two districts side by side with one another, in one of them adequate relief is being given and the right hon. Gentleman is trying to stop it, and the children there are not dying and are not being murdered in this fashion, while they are dying and are being murdered by the right hon. Gentleman in the other district?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1615.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1619.0", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is dissatisfaction about this, and an allegation that because Messrs. Joynson-Hicks and Company are solicitors to the London General Omnibus Company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1619.2", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "I meant no personal insinuation. I am simply stating that there is a considerable amount of dissatisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1627.8", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRAQ AND MOSUL, NEW TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "May I ask what direct advantage is the British taxpayer to obtain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1627.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1699.3", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "It is concerned with economy and with nothing else. In only one of its 10 paragraphs does the word \"economy\" not occur, and it generally occurs two or three times over in a paragraph. The whole argument of the first page deeply deplores the increase of expenditure by £1,260,000 this year, saying that the Government cannot contemplate another increase of expenditure, and that this will not do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1699.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1699.3", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "avoided. I have no doubt that some suspicion and apprehension is likely to linger in the minds of local authorities, even if it is withdrawn. Much of the good, welcoming spirit which met the right hon. Gentleman when he came to office will be lost. If the Circular is withdrawn—I say this quite distinctly and deliberately—we on this side of the House will do our best to restore concord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1699.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1710.0", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Lord Eustace Percy)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Lord Eustace Percy)", "preceding_text": " of continuity on such a basis? When I spoke on education in this House, I spoke of continuity with my predecessor and I spoke equally of continuity with my successor. It is not possible to have a policy of continuity on this basis. It cannot really be a continuous policy, and I am determined, and the Government are determined, that education shall really be continuous over a long period of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " been. Under the present grant system I have no detailed knowledge, certainly, until six months after the end of the financial year, and in many cases not till much later. What actually has been accomplished by the expenditure? I know that in two years the number of teachers has gone up by 3,920. I know that of this number about 1,700 are accounted for by the replacement of supplementary teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1720.3", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "There are a number waiting to get into the secondary schools, but how are you ever going to provide secondary school accommodation for those who need it, when for an increase of 2 per cent. of scholars the expenditure is as I have stated. It is impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1721.2", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "What is the policy embodied in Circular 1371? The policy embodied in Circular 1371 is that a system of grants leaves the Exchequer in complete uncertainty as to finance from year to year, and which leaves the Board of Education in equal uncertainty as to the steady carrying out of a programme of reforms must definitely go in the interests of efficiency, economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1721.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1721.2", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " word on two subjects which have been specially referred to—children under five years of age and the Burnham scale. We have had from the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Central Newcastle one of the speeches about children under five to which we are accustomed—this oratory about poor children whose alternative is between the gutter and the schools, who have to run about the streets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1721.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1723.3", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Yorkshire?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "ection is that for East Ham the number is about 36. Let us compare Devon and Cornwall, with their towns, excepting Plymouth— I leave Plymouth out for very good reasons—and Northumberland and Durham, with their towns. In Devon and Cornwall there are more than 5,000 children under five in the schools, and in Northumberland and Durham only 1,950, and half of those come from Middlesbrough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1723.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1725.2", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "I said, \"Who is going to pay for them?\" I think that is the solution. We do not want to press this —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] We want to know who is going to pay?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1725.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not yet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "preceding_text": "#163;40,000,000. The Noble Lord says that there are no controls. By degrees, however, the Board has been working out a standard of costs which very largely meets that objection. Let me take the item Teachers' Salaries, £41,500,000, assumed for the Board's Estimates of 1925–26. There is no difficulty about that figure, now that the Burnham scales have been adopted by the President—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1767.0", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTO R", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about armaments?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTO R", "preceding_text": "axe. We saw what happened to the Fisher Act under the Geddes axe. I should like to ask the Government about this. When the Committee reported, there were certain Departments suggested where ecomonies might be affected. There are some of these that, so far, the Government have never tackled at all. There were the defensive Services. I should like to see the Government tackle these before education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1767.0", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTO R", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTO R", "preceding_text": " the man who says we do not want to teach the people anything except reading, writing and arithmetic. That is generally the man who has been taught everything else, or has got such natural abilities that he can get on with them. Then we have the ardent and enthusiastic hon. Members on the other side of the House who say that everybody should be educated up to the age of 21 with maintenance grants,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1767.0", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTO R", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"What about dockyards?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTO R", "preceding_text": "ery last economy. There are the great social services of the country. Ministers intentions are all very well, but I want constructive legislation. Education is constructive. I have spoken quite frankly. Nobody can ever accuse me of being under any party in regard to the Navy. I would far rather cut down the fighting services for the next 10 years than cut down education. I would go as far as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1788.2", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" You have not! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "Most of them have been educated on money stolen from the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1788.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1795.0", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Not all men! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "cation authority that was active was protesting. We have education authorities that we would regard as reactionary: we have education authorities that we would regard as progressive. There is no distinction between them so far as condemning this Circular is concerned. An old proverb says, \" Beware when all men speak well of you.\" I do not know how much you ought to beware when all men condemn you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1800.3", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "s not going to be operative. I am very sorry to say that that expectation of ours has not been realised, and consequently some of us will go in one Lobby and some into the other. I am afraid that whatever be the speeches made in explanation and apology for the Circular, the action of those who support it will be in favour of reducing expenditure and reducing the efficiency of our education —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1807.2", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " opportunity of education, which you and your class have denied me, I want to say a word or two in reply to the speech delivered by the Noble Lady. She says economy is absolutely essential. Where is the economy going to begin? It begins always at the bottom, but never at the top. Nothing is said about the robbing of educational endowments from the workers of this country by those who sit opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1807.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-17", "file": "debates1925-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba57fe5b4d6752d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1807.2", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (CIRCULAR 1371).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Docks!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " limited. We have heard to-night how we can save £4,000,000 in a few years on the Government's education policy—about one-half the cost of a new battleship. I want to spend more on brains than on battleshipe, and the more we spend on brains the less we shall have to spend on battleships, and a good job, too' [HON. MEMBERS: \"Dockyards!\"] Hon. Members who interrupt should be in dockyards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-17a.1807.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-18", "file": "debates1925-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "14fec442b8998463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-18a.1857.0", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "BUILDING PROPOSALS, SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "verpool (Sir L. Scott) envisaged the erection of Babels and huge buildings of many stories, but that is an impossible and appalling proposition. What he states is true, however, that if you are going to house people close to their work in London or in any of the big cities you must build tenements. There are many people who prefer tenements to separate cottages because they involve less housework.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-18a.1857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-18", "file": "debates1925-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "14fec442b8998463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-18a.1909.0", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "BUILDING PROPOSALS, SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ng classes. But Clydebank are not able to pay anything; they have no money at all, and I want to appeal to the Secretary of State for Scotland, and I would appeal also to the Minister of Health, to use his influence with the Duke of Atholl. Here is a glorious opportunity for this great Duke to prove that he is in earnest to do something for Scotland, because he has never done anything yet for her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-18a.1909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-21", "file": "debates1925-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee49d5d2560cd693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.1951.5", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman prepared to take steps to deal with the softies and fatheads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.1951.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-21", "file": "debates1925-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee49d5d2560cd693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.1972.5", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I propose to put the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.1972.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-21", "file": "debates1925-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee49d5d2560cd693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2040.0", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "lls, and have-dropped them from the list. So far as we are concerned, they are not going to get this Bill and the other Bills down to-night. I shall speak upon every Amendment on this Bill and the four subsequent Bills, and there are sufficient Amendments in all these Bills to keep us Dividing right through until the House is supposed to meet to-morrow at 11 o'clock, without any discussion at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-21", "file": "debates1925-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee49d5d2560cd693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2061.0", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I would like to ask when the Lords Amendments to this Bill were available to Members of the House. I am told they were only dealt with late on Thursday evening in the House of Lords, and were only available-on Saturday morning. Many hon. Members by that time had returned to their homes and their constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-21", "file": "debates1925-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee49d5d2560cd693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2063.0", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Debate be now adjourned.\" No one who has listened to the Debate this afternoon, and who has notice the unwonted unanimity of the speeches from the benches opposite, could fail to be moved by them. It is quite true that, in our anxiety to meet the wishes of hon. Members opposite to return to their homes at the earliest possible moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-21", "file": "debates1925-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee49d5d2560cd693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2063.0", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "the 'discussion of a question of some international importance that is to be found on the Order Paper, and if it be true that hon. Members opposite, as indicated by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes), do not propose to remain here to listen to what may be said in the course of that Debate, that will give them at any rate ample time in which to study the Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-21", "file": "debates1925-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee49d5d2560cd693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2066.0", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "I am not going to give way. It is all very well for the right hon. Gentleman to seek to interrupt me in that fashion. I have tried to do the same with regard to him, and he has never been courteous enough to give way to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-21", "file": "debates1925-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee49d5d2560cd693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2066.0", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "I am not going to give way. It is all very well for the right hon. Gentleman to seek to interrupt me in that fashion. I have tried to do the same with regard to him, and he has never been courteous enough to give way to me. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I am following hie example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-21", "file": "debates1925-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee49d5d2560cd693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2066.0", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "nment proceeds, we shall get from the Government Front Bench far different treatment from that which we have been receiving, that we shall be taken into their confidence in a way that we have not been hitherto, and that, whichever Minister replies, whichever Minister takes part in the Debate, will try to give us some indication for more than five minutes ahead of what the Government propose to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-21", "file": "debates1925-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee49d5d2560cd693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2074.2", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "cause, at least, I know something about the subject. We have strong views. We believe that the Government should know the Opposition views in the negotiations with Turkey, which are all important. Our object is not only thru the Government may know our views but, at the same time, that they may save themselves from a Division. They cannot be helped by a Division. They may be injured by a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2074.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-21", "file": "debates1925-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "ee49d5d2560cd693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2129.0", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRAQ.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\" and \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "creasing one's efficiency and to going on with a view to future development. The British people, therefore, should not listen to the counsels of those who despair of the future, and who insist on saving at any cost to our national honour or future development. Holding these views strongly, clearly and decidedly, I am glad to think we shall, at any rate, have a unanimous decision on Mosul to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-21a.2129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-22", "file": "debates1925-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7c91b53755f9abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-22a.2159.1", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Certainly not; it is maintaining complete impartiality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-22a.2159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-22", "file": "debates1925-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7c91b53755f9abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-22a.2209.1", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "ribed and the form of any rate, demand note, valuation list, statement, return or other document whatsoever which is required or authorised to be used under or for the purposes of this Act. Clause 58 gives the Minister power to introduce any details prescribed by this particular Act. Surely an Act of Parliament can only contain what is in it, and if you remove paragraph ( g ) it will be out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-22a.2209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-22", "file": "debates1925-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7c91b53755f9abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-22a.2209.1", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": " secondly, the days when the people dodge the landlord, if possible, but, believe me, one of the best days in the working of our borough is the day when the local citizens receive the demand note for the payment of rates. You may think the people in our borough receive it with consternation, but they do not. The ratepayers of West Ham are as ready to pay their rates as the people are to pay rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-22a.2209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-22", "file": "debates1925-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7c91b53755f9abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-22a.2209.1", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "ent, in a sense inundated by people who call upon us and ask us to explain. Is not that a wonderful sign? Is not that the reality of the life of a member of a borough council I Is not that the proof that the powers under paragraph (g) are of utility? There is an old saying that the proof of the pudding is in the eating. I believe that the proof of the pudding is in the amount that is on the plate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-22a.2209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1925-12-22", "file": "debates1925-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "c7c91b53755f9abc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-22a.2241.0", "colnum": "2241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": " be more severe upon him, I think it is right that all those who drive omnibuses, taxi-cabs, and so on, should know that if they take too much alcohol they are liable to be thus punished. Some people say that taking any alcohol is quite sufficient in the case of a person who is driving a car, and I myself should be in accord with that view. I have made a few experiments on the matter myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1925-12-22a.2241.0"}